Barnum’s New American Museum
Event Information
Venue(s):
Barnum's New American Museum [SEP 65-MAR 68]
Price: $.30; .15 children under ten
Event Type:
Variety / Vaudeville
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
8 October 2012
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
11 Sep 1865, All DayProgram Details
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
“Barnum’s New American Museum. In the full tide of success. A magnificent lecture room, deliciously cool, elegantly designed, luxuriously seated, and daily filled with delighted and appreciative audiences. Already on exhibition, over 100,000 curiosities, Animate and inanimate. From sunrise until 10 o’clock P.M., To Amuse, Instruct, and Interest. Tallest Giantess and Giant. Largest Fat Woman, and prettiest Circassian Girls ever seen. Bohemian Glass Blowers, Two Steam Glass Engines in Motion, A Cherokee Indian born without arms. Prof. Hutchings, Lighting Calculator. Afternoon at 3. Evening at 7½. Madame Maria MacCrate [sic], The celebrated artist in her brilliant acts, W.B. Harrison, Extemporaneous Singer, Master Timothy in Comic Dances, a Grand Spectacular Romance entitled The Children of Cyprus.”
“The new establishment is crowded from morning till night.”