Barnum’s American Museum

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 Day
02 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

3)
aka Extravaganza dance
Participants:  Tony Denier

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 01 May 1865, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 01 May 1865, 7.
3)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 06 May 1865, 31.

      “The Orange Girl. Its impressive language, thrilling incidents, mechanical appliances and sensational effects, are unequalled in dramatic history.”

4)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 06 May 1865, 30.

      “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.