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    Barnum's American Museum was located at the corner of Broadway, Park Row, and Ann Street in what is now the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City...
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    Confederate lines. Barnum's Unionist sympathies incited a Confederate sympathizer to start a fire in 1864. Barnum's American Museum burned to the ground...
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    portal History of Bridgeport, Connecticut Barnum's American Museum – in New York City, 1841–1865 Hotel Barnum, also listed on the NRHP in Bridgeport National...
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    exhibited under similar names and pretexts. P. T. Barnum exhibited the original in Barnum's American Museum in New York in 1842, but it then disappeared—likely...
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    time, Barnum took the Museum on road tours, named "P.T. Barnum's Grand Traveling American Museum". The Museum burned down in July 1865. Though Barnum attempted...
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    Swiss-born bearded lady who is most famous for being part of P. T. Barnum's "American Museum." Madame Clofullia, as she was often billed, was born Josephine...
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    Thesis: P.T. Barnum Presents: The Greatest Classroom on Earth! Historical Inquiry into the Role of Education in Barnum's American Museum The University...
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    deemed to be freaks. The museum drew in about 400,000 visitors a year. Barnum's American Museum was one of the most popular museums in New York City to exhibit...
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  • Barnum's American Museum, a defunct New York City museum co-owned by Barnum, founded 1841 and destroyed by fire in 1865 Barnum's New Museum, another defunct...
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  • Confederate Army of Manhattan (category Irregular forces of the American Civil War)
    simultaneously start fires in 19 hotels, a theater, and P. T. Barnum's American Museum. The objective was to overwhelm the city's firefighting resources...
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  • cognitive bias named after P. T. Barnum Barnum (musical), a Broadway musical based on P.T. Barnum's life Barnum's American Museum, New York City, US Barnham...
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    she was 17, Swan started working with American showman P. T. Barnum.: 86  She lived in Barnum's American Museum in New York City, and on July 13, 1865...
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  • The Greatest Showman (category Cultural depictions of P. T. Barnum)
    Barnum rescues him. Bennett tells Barnum that the culprits have been caught and that Lind has cancelled her tour after Barnum's "scandal". Barnum's mansion...
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    president Theodore Roosevelt. Calls for a natural history museum increased after Barnum's American Museum burned down in 1868. Eighteen prominent New Yorkers...
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    transformed into the very successful Barnum's American Museum. The roots of the museum date back to 1791, when the "American Museum" was founded by John Pintard...
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    By November 1860, Maximo and Bartola were being exhibited at Barnum's American Museum alongside Chang and Eng Bunker. On January 7, 1867, the two were...
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    Commodore Nutt (category American circus performers)
    treasure." Barnum knew Nutt could be a major museum attraction. He hired a lawyer to lure Nutt away from his manager. Following Barnum's orders, the...
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    over 200 American universities. After Barnum's death in 1891, the museum continued to prosper. A further $40,000 provided by Barnum gave the museum two new...
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  • Life (Reprise) - Charity and Barnum Barnum's Lament - Barnum Join the Circus - Barnum, Bailey and Ensemble Finale - Barnum The original production opened...
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    Nancy Fish (redirect from Nancy Fish Barnum)
    successful cotton miller and the second wife of P. T. Barnum, 40 years her senior. After the death of Barnum's first wife in 1873, they married the following...
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  • their contents were moved to Barnum's American Museum in New York. Most of the exhibits were destroyed when the American Museum burned down in 1865. June...
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    for a time "a kind of living museum exhibit"  at Barnum's American Museum in New York City. (This was not the later Barnum's circus; there is no evidence...
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  • The Barnum Museum is a 1990 collection of fantasy themed short stories by Steven Millhauser. Its closing story is 'Eisenheim the Illusionist', which was...
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  • Do-Hum-Me (category 19th-century Native American women)
    soon thereafter were employed by P. T. Barnum's American Museum in Manhattan, performing ceremonial Native American dances. Do-Hum-Me was instantly very...
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  • General Barnum's American Museum, Manhattan Chelsea Art Museum, Manhattan, closed in 2011 Children's Museum of the Arts Con Edison Energy Museum, Manhattan...
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    Chang and Eng Bunker (category American people of Chinese descent)
    October 1860 they signed with famed showman P. T. Barnum for a month and exhibited in Barnum's American Museum in New York City. Alongside Zip the Pinhead,...
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    Robert Cobb Kennedy (category Confederate States of America military personnel killed in the American Civil War)
    his own twist, using one of his incendiaries to set a fire at Barnum's American Museum, allegedly because "it would be fun to start a scare." The plot...
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    John Brown (abolitionist) (category American Congregationalists)
    Manor, Maryland All of these museums except the one in Harpers Ferry are places Brown lived or stayed. Barnum's American Museum in New York, destroyed by...
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  • near Bath, Somerset, England, founded 1961 Barnum's American Museum (formerly Scudder's American Museum), Broadway and Ann Street, New York City, 1841–1865...
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    Barnum Brown (February 12, 1873 – February 5, 1963), commonly referred to as Mr. Bones, was an American paleontologist. Named after the circus showman...
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