Event Information
Venue(s):
Barnum's American Museum [JAN 1842-JUL 1865]
Price: $.15 children under ten; .30
Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
6 June 2016
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
01 May 1865, All Day02 May 1865, All Day
03 May 1865, All Day
04 May 1865, All Day
05 May 1865, All Day
06 May 1865, All Day
Program Details
The Orange Girl and Extravaganza Dance at 11 a.m. “The Boone Family Combination†included: “classical readings, comic songs, duets, dialogues, &c., in character.†See AD: NYH 05/01/65. Also advertised was the opportunity to meet and greet Samuel Downing, one of the few remaining survivors of the American Revolution.
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
3)
“Barnum has on exhibition at his Museum an old gentleman called Samuel Downing, announced by the great showman as ‘one of the three survivors of the revolution, aged 104 years.’ He has also what he calls ‘a horse and rider entwined by an enormous serpent, converted into stone.’ He don’t [sic] tell us, though, what they were before being converted into stone.”
COMMENT: The NYH advertises Mr. Downing as one of the four survivors of the Revolution.