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- Title
- Grand metropolitan quadruple combination consisting of Geo. F. Bailey & Co's extensive circus! with its star troupe of performers, splendid horses and gorgeous paraphernalia; Herr Driesbach's large and comprehensive menagerie! comprising a splendid collection of the finest specimens of the animal kingdom ever exhibited; G.C. Quick's collossal hippopotamus imported at a cost of forty thousand dollars. ... Sands, Nathans & Co.'s performing elephants, (Antony and Cleopatra, Victoria and Albert.) These various attractions will be exhibited under one canvas for the same price of admission which has heretofore been charged to each one separately,--making it the cheapest exhibition extant. ... The multitudinous combination will enter town in a grand procession at about 10 o'clock, A.M. on the day of the exhibition, headed by the immense hippopotamus den, drawn by a team of elephants, accompanied by a popular band of music
- Description
- Performers include: Sam Burt, J. Burton, Henri Clerment, the Denzer Brothers, Gustave Ducrow, Henri Franconi, Philo Nathans, Charles Rivers, Auguste Simoni, Le Sieur Tremaine, and J.M. Ward., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Date
- [1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1863 Grand met (25)5761.F.70a (McAllister)
- Title
- Go and see the great wonder of the age to-night, at Odd Fellows' Hall, Norristown! :bThe wonderful stereopticon which has lately attracted so much attention in the large cities of Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Baltimore, and elsewhere, will be exhibited at the above popular hall, on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday evenings, September 29th and 30th, and October 1st, 2d and 3d, 1863. The largest audiences ever assembled can look upon it at one and the same time with sympathetic delight. More than 500,000 people have visited it, and pronounced it one of the greatest discoveries of the day! Enabling the beholder to make a tour all over the world in a single evening. The most famous places and objects of the earth, of all ages of the world, are here shown by the aid of this marvelous invention Don't fail to see it! See programmes. Admission, 25 cents Afternoon entertainment on Saturday, 3d Oct'r, commencing at 3 o'clock!
- Description
- John Toy, proprietor; E.E. Hulfish, lecturer; E.B. Merchants, operator., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Toy, John
- Date
- [1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1863 Toy (25)5761.F.99a (McAllister)
- Title
- Odd Fellows' Hall, Norristown Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday ev'ngs, September 29th and 30th, and October 1st, 2d, and 3d, 1863 The wonderful stereopticon Proprietor John Toy Delineator E.E. Hulfish, Esq. Manipulator Prof. E.B. Merchants It has been pronounced the great wonder of the age Its results are marvelous, and its resources endless! Change of programme each night! Grand day exhibition on Saturday afternoon October 3d, commencing at 3 o'clock. The stereopticon is a new and powerful apparatus, which, with the aid of the strongest artificial light that science has yet created, produces gigantic stereoscopic pictures! covering over 800 square feet of illuminated canvas, ... At each entertainment will be presented a choice selection, comprising the grandest and most attractive views of American and European scenery, ... The whole comprising the most noted objects of interest, as seen by travelers in a voyage around the world!! Each evening will be presented a number of interesting local views, choice specimens of monumental sculpture, &c., and statues and colossal portraits of eminent American heroes & statesmen ... Admission, 25 cents Doors open at 7 o'clock. To commence at 8
- Description
- Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Toy, John
- Date
- [1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1863 Toy (25)5761.F.98b (McAllister)
- Title
- Odd Fellows' Hall, Norristown for five nights only, commencing Tuesday evening, March 15th, 1864. Zographicon! A series of panoramic illustrations--of T.S. Arthur's Ten nights in a bar-room! John Bunyan's Pilgrim's progress, and other attractive scenes from life, character, nature and art! Comprising one of the most pleasing, instructive and highly impressive series of entertainments of this class ever presented to the American public
- Description
- Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 55.8 x 20.3 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Wunderlich, George, b. ca. 1826
- Date
- [1864]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1864 Wunder (25)5761.F.134a (McAllister)