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P T Barnum
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P T Barnum
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Saturday, September 13, 2025
Diary of George Templeton Strong, Friday, March 2, 1860
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Stopped at Barnum’s on my way downtown to see the much advertised nondescript, the "What-is-it.” 1 Some say it’s an advanced chimpanze...
Diary of George Templeton Strong, March 3, 1860
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George Anthon called in Wall Street, and before going uptown, we stopped at Barnum’s. The "What-is-it?” is palpably a little nigger and...
Saturday, July 17, 2021
Diary of Sergeant David L. Day: December 1, 1863
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NEWPORT News, VA., Dec. 1, 1863. On receipt of my furlough, which came promptly to hand at the appointed time, I, in company with eight o...
Thursday, December 24, 2020
Diary of Caroline Cowles Richards: January 13, 1863
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P. T. Barnum delivered his lecture on" The Art of Money Getting" in Bemis Hall this evening for the benefit of the Ladies' Aid...
Thursday, July 5, 2018
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, January 1859
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January, 1859 Barnum has been lecturing here, and sent me a copy of his life with a very good, manly letter. He has heard of some criti...
Friday, January 14, 2011
Quite Right
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We are informed that Mr. Artemus Ward has positively declined to exhibit his Children in the Wood at Barnum’s approaching Polyphlosboyandgir...
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