Newspapers - P.T. Barnum Digital Collection
The newspapers and magazines sub-collection contains illustrated material as well as items that are mainly text. A highlight are the dozen rare... Show moreThe newspapers and magazines sub-collection contains illustrated material as well as items that are mainly text. A highlight are the dozen rare Herald of Freedom newspapers published by P. T. Barnum in the early 1830s, along with two competitors’ issues from the same time. Also included are selected news magazines featuring stories that pertain to P. T. Barnum and his famous associates. Subjects include Jenny Lind, Charles Stratton (Gen. Tom Thumb), Barnum’s American Museum, Jumbo the Elephant, and Barnum’s Hippodrome. Full-page and double- page illustrations from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, and Harper’s Weekly are among them. A few clippings are also included. Show less
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Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/60002:ptb_newspapers
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- Entertainers
- Illustrations
- Museums
- Women entertainers
- Advertisements
- Circus--United States--History
- Clippings
- Marriage service
- People with disabilities--Marriage
- African elephant
- Circus animals
- Curiosities and wonders
- Marriage--Press coverage
- Captive elephants
- Conjoined twins
- Mansions
- Obituaries
- Periodical illustrations
- Women singers
- Agriculture
- Albinos and albinism
- Asiatic elephant
- Concert tours
- Lithographs
- Magazine
- Museums--Fire and fire prevention
- People with disabilities--Travel
- Political cartoons
- Reviews
- Women musicians
- Yachts
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- Harper's Monthly
- Hartford Newspaper
- Illustrated London News
- Illustrated News
- Life Illustrated
- New York Herald
- New York Weekly Tribune
- Norwich Weekly
- Roxbury Gazette
- Unknown creator, American
- Unknown creator, English