Barnum's Museum, New York: Museum Object and Cultural History
Barnum's Museum, New York: date made: 1853. date made: 1853. maker: Beckers, Alexander.
The object in the museum catalogue
Calotype negative between two plates of glass. Photograph is of a row of buildings in New York City. To the left is the Barnum Museum and to the right is Genin's Hatter establishment.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1853
- date made: 1853
- maker: Beckers, Alexander
- Object Name: photograph
- Object Name: calotype negative
- Object Name: Photograph
- Physical Description: glass; paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 5 in x 4 in; 12.7 cm x 10.16 cm
- place made: United States: New Jersey, Hoboken
- Subject: Circus
- ID Number: PG.524
- catalog number: 524
- accession number: 25295
- Credit Line: Gift of Frances B. Johnson
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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