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P. T. Barnum

American showman and politician (1810–1891)

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Images by P. T. Barnum

2 images from works
  • Last week of the extraordinary and wonderful Albino Family : white negroes, or moors, from Madagascar, consisting of a husband, wife and child ... : What can they be? ... What is it? ... More wonderful curiosities! The original Siamese twins Chan and Eng ... / P.T. Barnum.
  • Last week of the extraordinary and wonderful Albino Family : white negroes, or moors, from Madagascar, consisting of a husband, wife and child ... : What can they be? ... What is it? ... More wonderful curiosities! The original Siamese twins Chan and Eng ... / P.T. Barnum.

Images featuring P. T. Barnum

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  • Enthusiastic reception of Barnum's great and renowned Boston Prize Ladies who have been specially engaged to complete a tour of Great Britain at an enormous outlay : Miss Minnie & Rhoda Holland.
  • Enthusiastic reception of Barnum's great and renowned Boston Prize Ladies who have been specially engaged to complete a tour of Great Britain at an enormous outlay : Miss Minnie & Rhoda Holland.
  • [Undated handbill (1885?) advertising an appearance by Barnum's Boston Prize ladies (the Sisters Holland?), "weighing together nearly half-a-ton". Printed in Bristol. ].

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4 works

    • Books

    Life of P. T. Barnum / Written by himself.

    Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891. | Date: 1855
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Last week of the extraordinary and wonderful Albino Family : white negroes, or moors, from Madagascar, consisting of a husband, wife and child ... : What can they be? ... What is it? ... More wonderful curiosities! The original Siamese twins Chan and Eng ... / P.T. Barnum.

    Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891. | Date: 1860
    • Books

    The humbugs of the world / by P.T. Barnum.

    Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891. | Date: 1866
    • Books

    Struggles and triumphs, or, Forty years' recollections of P. T. Barnum / Written by himself.

    Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891. | Date: 1869

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