Barnum’s American Museum
Event Information
Venue(s):
Barnum's American Museum [JAN 1842-JUL 1865]
Price: $.15 children; .30
Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
2 May 2012
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
08 May 1865, All DayProgram Details
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
“glass blowers, mammoth fat women, giant boy, giantess, dwarf. Morning – Afternoon, at 3 o’clock, and evening – The Wreck Ashore – The Yankee Peddler.”
“Barnum announces the celebrated Adelphi drama of the ‘Wreck Ashore’ – one of the most interesting plays on the stage. A farce will precede its performance. In the morning – which, by the way, is the best hour to visit the Museum – the Boone family combination will appear in their chaste entertainment. Chased also – in another way – have been the two alligators recently added to Mr. Barnum’s zoological collection. These animated curiosities are each twenty-one feet long. The size of their mouths conveys but a feeble idea of the strength of their appetite, but this is considerable.”