Newspaper: New York Weekly Tribune, features article about American Museum fire

Newspaper: New York Weekly Tribune, features article about American Museum fire. The fire is described in the leftmost column. Barnum's second American Museum opened in September 1865 at 539-541 Broadway, but it wasn't long before it too burned down. Just two and a half years later, on March 3, 1868, the building went up in flames, and another collection was lost. As before, most of the animals did not survive, but the performers who lived at the museum were able to get out. This finished Barnum's American Museum enterprise; he had no heart to open a third. The concepts and core of the American Museum would be later reborn and remodeled in Barnum's circuses. Printed by the New York Weekly Tribune, January 1, 1873.