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P.T. Barnum, reimagined by an honors first-year seminar at Worcester State University
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Dec 4, 2014
Dec 4, 2014
4 min
Barnum's American Museum, once located on the corner of Anne and Broadway in New York City, was a major point of American pop culture in the mid-1800s; step in to see the build up and opening of one of Barnum's greatest triumphs!
Dec 4, 2014
Dec 4, 2014
Dec 4, 2014
4 min
Barnum exhibits General Tom Thumb, fresh out of England. 11 years old and only 25 inches high!
Dec 4, 2014
Dec 4, 2014
5 min
Come get excited to experience the Great Buffalo Show... or Great Buffalo Hoax!
Dec 4, 2014
Dec 4, 2014
5 min
P.T. Barnum and his side show collection. The American Museum in New York welcomes the Bearded Lady of Geneva!
Dec 4, 2014
Dec 4, 2014
Dec 4, 2014
4 min
This episode is about one of the many natural curiosities Barnum had in his museums. His famous Woolly Horse was a popular exhibit, but was the horse actually one of a kind?
Dec 4, 2014
Dec 4, 2014
4 min
Jenny Lind, "the Swedish Nightingale," engaged in a $150,000 contract with P. T. Barnum to sing on tour in America. This episode describes the excitement over Jenny Lind's 1850 arrival in New York City.
Dec 4, 2014
Dec 4, 2014
8 min
Become one of the hundreds of onlookers who watched Barnum's "Brick Man" perform a fairly peculiar task!
Dec 4, 2014
Dec 4, 2014
4 min
Listen to this informational, jaw-dropping episode on P. T. Barnum's horrific 1865 museum fire.