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Barnum's American Museum was a dime museum located at the corner of Broadway, Park Row, and Ann Street in what is now the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City, from 1841 to 1865. The museum was owned by famous showman P. T. Barnum , who purchased Scudder's American Museum in 1841.
Barnum's Unionist sympathies incited a Confederate sympathizer to start a fire in 1864. Barnum's American Museum burned to the ground on July 13, 1865, from a fire of unknown origin. Barnum reestablished it at another location in New York City, but this was also destroyed by fire in March 1868.
P. T. Barnum purchased Scudder's Dime Museum in 1841 and transformed it into one of the more popular single cultural sites that has existed, Barnum's American Museum. Together, P.T. Barnum and Moses Kimball introduced the so-called "Edutainement", which was a moralistic education realized through sensational freak shows, theater and circus ...
Hannah Jane Battersby (née Perkins); c. 1836 – November 25, 1889) was an American "Fat Lady" sideshow performer and the wife of "Human Skeleton" John Battersby (1829 – 1897). She performed for companies including the Barnum & Bailey Circus alongside Lavinia Warren and Charles Stratton ( General Tom Thumb ) between 1859 and 1889 and was ...
The Cardiff Giant was one of the most famous archaeological hoaxes in American history. It was a 10-foot-tall (3.0 m), roughly 3,000 pound [ 1 ] purported " petrified man", uncovered on October 16, 1869 by workers digging a well behind the barn of William C. "Stub" Newell, in Cardiff, New York .
[10] [11] [12] P. T. Barnum, who as a boy had worked as a ticket seller for Hachaliah Bailey's show, had run the Barnum's American Museum from New York City since 1841 from the former Scudder's American Museum building. [8] [9] Besides building up the existing exhibits, Barnum brought in animals to add zoo-like elements, and a freak show. [13]
Barnum's American Museum (formerly Scudder's American Museum), Broadway and Ann Street, New York City, 1841–1865; Musée américain, a pre-Columbian art section of the Louvre, Paris, 1851-1887; The American Museum, an 18th-century American magazine, published by Matthew Carey, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 1787 to December 1792
In January 1877 they were performing at the New American Museum located in Manhattan. [6] In June 1880 at the time of the federal census, they were touring with William C. Coup's circus and were enumerated under their assumed identities. By 1882 Waino and Plutanor became involved with P. T. Barnum and his traveling exhibitions. With Barnum's ...