Venue(s):
Barnum's American Museum [JAN 1842-JUL 1865]
Price: $.15 children under ten; .30
Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
6 June 2016
“The Orange Girl. Its impressive language, thrilling incidents, mechanical appliances and sensational effects, are unequalled in dramatic history.”
“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.