Adam Forepaugh/4-Paw Show: Museum Object and Cultural History
Adam Forepaugh/4-Paw Show: Object Name: handbill. Physical Description: paper (overall material). Physical Description: ink (overall material).
The object in the museum catalogue
Broadside advertisement for the Adam 4-Paw/Forepaugh Shows, in their 29th year. Advertises Circus, menagerie, museum, aviary, Imperial Moorish circus, and hippodrome, as well the historic bible spectacle "The Fall of Nineveh." Front features two drawings of Ninevah, as well as sketches of Adam Forepaugh, the founder, and J.T. McCaddon, the manager. The back features more descriptions of shows and explains that they will exhibit at Binghamton on Thursday August 18.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Object Name: handbill
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 29 1/2 in x 10 1/2 in; 74.93 cm x 26.67 cm
- place made: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- general subject association: Theater
- Subject: Circus
- ID Number: 1983.0235.06
- accession number: 1983.0235
- catalog number: 1983.0235.06
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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