Wood’s Minstrels
Event Information
Venue(s):
Wood's Minstrel Hall
Proprietor / Lessee:
Henry Wood [minstrel]
Event Type:
Minstrel
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
6 June 2016
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
01 May 1865, 7:45 PM02 May 1865, 7:45 PM
03 May 1865, 7:45 PM
04 May 1865, 7:45 PM
05 May 1865, 7:45 PM
06 May 1865, 7:45 PM
Program Details
"Petroliamania" appears with an alternate spelling as "Petroleumania" in an earlier performance. “Previous to the Burlesque, a Grand Minstrel Performance, by Wood’s Minstrels.” See AD: NYH 05/02/65.
"Petroliamania; or, Oil on the brain" includes: “How do you flow?” and “Pay your royalty”.
Following the discovery of oil in northwestern Pennsylvania in 1859, there was much investment in drilling, extracting and refining oil, this last in Brooklyn along the East River. By 1863 New York was exporting half a million barrels of oil a year. J. D. Rockefeller set up his first oil business in New York in 1859, and after not too many years his Standard Oil company had a monopoly on oil. Meanwhile, there apparently was a fever of speculation on Wall Street. See "Gotham," p. 874.
"Petroliamania; or, Oil on the brain" includes: “How do you flow?” and “Pay your royalty”.
Following the discovery of oil in northwestern Pennsylvania in 1859, there was much investment in drilling, extracting and refining oil, this last in Brooklyn along the East River. By 1863 New York was exporting half a million barrels of oil a year. J. D. Rockefeller set up his first oil business in New York in 1859, and after not too many years his Standard Oil company had a monopoly on oil. Meanwhile, there apparently was a fever of speculation on Wall Street. See "Gotham," p. 874.