Author: Barnum's American Museum
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Category : Curiosities and wonders
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Author: Barnum's American Museum
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Category : Curiosities and wonders
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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Category : Museums
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Category : Museums
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Languages : en
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Author: Candace Fleming
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
ISBN: 0375841970
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Discover the true story of P.T. Barnum, the man who created the world-famous Barnum & Bailey Circus, as featured in the movie The Greatest Showman! The award-winning author of The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary, Amelia Lost, and Our Eleanor brings us the larger-than-life biography of showman P. T. Barnum. Known far and wide for his jumbo elephants, midgets, and three-ring circuses, here’ s a complete and captivating look at the man behind the Greatest Show on Earth. Readers can visit Barnum’s American Museum; meet Tom Thumb, the miniature man (only 39 inches tall) and his tinier bride (32 inches); experience the thrill Barnum must have felt when, at age 60, he joined the circus; and discover Barnum’s legacy to the 19th century and beyond. Drawing on old circus posters, photographs, etchings, ticket stubs—and with incredible decorative art by Ray Fenwick—this book presents history as it’s never been experienced before—a show-stopping event!

Author: Morris Robert Werner
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Category : Circus
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Author: Bluford Adams
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816626311
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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The first book to consider the career of P. T. Barnum from a cultural studies perspective. Phineas Taylor Barnum lived from 1810 until 1891, and in the eighty-one years of his life he created show business as we know it. In E Pluribus Barnum, Bluford Adams investigates the influence Barnum had on American popular culture of the nineteenth century, and expands our understanding of the ways he continues to influence us today. Beginning with a discussion of Barnum's early shows, Adams demonstrates the dynamic interplay between Barnum's increasingly "respectable" aspirations for his entertainments and his active cultivation of middle-class sensibilities in his audiences. In his discussion of the 1850-51 concert tour of the "Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind, Adams explores the role played by women's rights and class issues in Barnum's management of these concerts. Barnum's American Museum and the "moral dramas" presented in its theater are examined, as well as the later circuses. Adams relates the rise of Barnum to the emergence of a new U.S. society, one riven by conflicts over slavery, feminism, immigration, and capitalism, and considers his career as a crucial moment in the on-going struggle over the politics of U.S. commercial entertainments.

Author: Cadmus Book Shop
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 892

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Author: Phineas Taylor Barnum
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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