Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891
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- P.T. Barnum Collection
- Date
- 1889-1890
- Container
- Box 1
- Archival Repository
- Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- P.T. Barnum Collection, 1873-1890, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
- Collection Rights
- Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
- Scope and Contents
- Described the trip to and from London when Barnum and Bailey took the circus there in 1889 February 1890. It included about 440 performers, 380 horses, camels, bear, monkeys, leopards and 13 elephants, lions, tigers, llama, and deer. Went for 100 days and cost about 12,000 per day. Also 80 tons of advertising materials were taken over. Barnum wanted to show that Americans could do anything better. The advertising techniques and circus show itself wowed them in England. **It is interesting to note that on the trip over meat was frozen in cubical cakes and packed in refrigerators between layers of ice.
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503513386615-1503513386619-1
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