Tag Archives: P.T. Barnum
Barnum Rises from the Ashes
The 19th century did not have internet, video games, or let alone a television. Although these technological entertainments are sought by people in search of leisure and entertainment today, B. T. Barnum’s Museum was a source of leisure back in … Continue reading →
What a Circus!
P.T. Barnum was famously know for the start of his traveling museum. “P. T. Barnum’s Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan & Hippodrome”, the first name, traveling circus, menagerie and museum of freaks. After the war was over, the population needed … Continue reading →
The lost of treasure …..
After a brief recession when British left NY in 1783, prices quickly rose on wheat and on other commodities, Alexander Hamilton, leader of the NY federalist created a financial system leading up to the opening of the stock exchange on … Continue reading →