Barnum's American Museum

Barnum's American Museum in 1858 '''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. The museum offered both strange and educational attractions and performances. Some were extremely reputable and historically or scientifically valuable, while others were less so. Provided by Wikipedia
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    History of Rudolph Lucasie : a native of Lenabon, Madgascar and an albino of the first class : also, a brief history of his wife and child : with an account of the extraordinary physical phenomena termed "albinoism" /
    Published 1860
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    Catalogue or guide book of Barnum's American Museum, New York containing descriptions and illustrations of the various wonders and curiosities of this immense establishment which have been collected during the last half century from every quarter of the globe
    Published 1860
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    American Museum!! Broadway, corner of Ann Street. Grand & glorious attractions! Every day & evening this week! Commencing Monday, November 10th, 1845. Splendid performances. ... Last week positively of the famous English dwarf! ... Re-engaged for 1 week that wonder of wonders, the living male orang outang! ... Re-engaged for one week the inimitable drollerist and personator of Yankee, Dutch, Irish and other characters, the celebrated Winchell! ..
    Published 1845
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    American Museum ærial garden!! And fair!! Cor Broadway & Ann-St. P.T. Barnum, manager every day and evening this week commencing Monday, August 21, 1843. ... First appearance of Miss M.E. Adair the popular vocalist ... Ethiopian concert!! By Messrs. T.G. Booth with the bone castinets and F. Diamond on the banjo ..
    Published 1843
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    The Rand aquaria: at Barnum's museum! The "new pleasure" ..
    Published 1842
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    Great combination of attractions!! At the American Museum, Broadway, corner of Ann-Street. ..
    Published 1842
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    Barnum's American Museum Monday & Tuesday November 17th & 18th [1851]. Programme of the performances this afternoon and evening. In the lecture room. Afternoon ... the highly amusing farce, entitled The dancing barber ... Evening ... The touching, thrilling, and extremely interesting moral drama, prepared from Goldsmith's celebrated moral romance, The vicar of Wakefield ..
    Published 1851
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    Barnum's Museum The last week of the celebrated and overwhelmiug [sic] successful Uncle Tom's cabin ... Thursday & Friday, Dec. 29 & 30, 1853 this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Negro minstrelsy by the Orphan Brothers ... after which the new moral drama, dramatized by H.J. Conway, from the advance sheets of the popular work, by Solon Robinson, Esq., one of the editors of the New York Tribune ... entitled Hot corn or, Life scenes in New York. ... This evening at 7 o'clock. Last week of the new and intensely interesting American moral drama, in five parts, entitled Uncle Tom's cabin ..
    Published 1853
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    Grand national baby-show, at Barnum's American Museum, in New York, June 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th, 1855 Twenty-one premiums, amounting, in all, to over $1,000 in cash! ... This baby-show, the first exhibition of the kind ever held in New York, will be open to children (under 5 years of age) from all parts of the world! ... The proprietor of the American Museum will pay the following premiums to babies exhibited as above. ...
    Published 1855
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    A guide to rapid and accurate computation,
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    Barnum's Museum ... To be seen at all hours, extraordinary living curiosities. The wild Australian children, Hoomio and Lola. ..
    Published 1850
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    Barnum's Museum ... Monday, Sept. 19th, 1864, afternoon at 3. Will be presented ... Love's disguises. ... Patriotic address. ... To conclude with the excellent new farce ... Jones' baby. ... Evening at 7 1-2 will be performed ... Signet of King Solomon! Or The templar's daughter. ... Every morning at 11 will be performed the very laughable piece ... entitled New Year's calls. ..
    Published 1864
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    A guide to rapid and accurate computation /
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    Descriptive pamphlet of the celebrated gorgeous oriental tableau of cerean sculpture, (each figure moving as if alive,) entitled "Lord Byron and the Greeks; or, the Suliot Conspirarcy," (D. Andrews, principal artist.) : now exhibiting at Barnum's Museum, with such unparalleled applause
    Published 1852
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    Illustrated memoir of an eventful expedition into Central America resulting in the discovery of the idolatrous city of Iximaya, in an unexplored region; and the possession of two remarkable Aztec children, Maximo (the boy), and Bartola (the girl), descendants and specimens of the sacerdotal caste (now nearly extinct), of the ancient Aztec founders of the ruined temples of that country,
    by Velasquez, Pedro
    Published 1860
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    Descriptive pamphlet of the celebrated gorgeous oriental tableau of cerean sculpture, (each figure moving as if alive,) entitled "Lord Byron and the Greeks; or, the Suliot Conspirarcy," (D. Andrews, principal artist.) : now exhibiting at Barnum's Museum, with such unparalleled applause
    Published 1852
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    The latest novelty : for a few days, the celebrated African united twins [...] /
    Published 1854
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    Catalogue or guide book of Barnum's American Museum, New York : containing descriptions and illustrations of the various wonders and curiosities of this immense establishment which have been collected during the last half century from every quarter of the globe ..
    Published 1860
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    Dred, a tale of the great Dismal Swamp : A drama in four acts : founded on the novel of the same title, by Mrs. H.B. Stowe /
    by Conway, H. J
    Published 1856
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    Hop-o'-my thumb, or, The ogre and the dwarf : a romance of nursery history, in four parts /
    by Smith, Albert, 1816-1860
    Published 1862
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