• Thumbnail for P. T. Barnum
    Forty Years' Recollections of P.T. Barnum. Buffalo, NY: Warren, Johnson & Co. Mansky, Jackie (December 22, 2017), "P. T. Barnum Isn't the Hero the 'Greatest...
    51 KB (5,858 words) - 10:00, 17 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nancy Fish
    Nancy Fish (redirect from Nancy Fish Barnum)
    successful cotton miller and the second wife of P. T. Barnum, 40 years her senior. After the death of Barnum's first wife in 1873, they married the following...
    12 KB (1,204 words) - 22:03, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
    Bros. and Barnum & Bailey. The circus started in 1919 when the Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth, a circus created by P. T. Barnum and James Anthony...
    60 KB (6,662 words) - 23:45, 24 November 2024
  • production, among others. In the middle of the 19th century, Phineas Taylor (P.T.) Barnum introduces his circus acts as he stands in front of a tent, proclaiming...
    19 KB (1,835 words) - 18:45, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for General Tom Thumb
    dwarfism who achieved great fame as a performer under circus pioneer PT. Barnum. Born January 4, 1838, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Stratton was the son...
    17 KB (1,956 words) - 23:05, 29 September 2024
  • The P.T. Barnum Bridge is a highway bridge carrying Interstate 95 and the Connecticut Turnpike over the Pequonnock River in Bridgeport, Connecticut. There...
    2 KB (180 words) - 08:12, 11 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Ferry
    subsequently founded in 1883 by several backers, including entrepreneur P.T. Barnum, and Port Jefferson seaman Charles E. Tooker. The ferry company originally...
    19 KB (2,161 words) - 11:05, 16 December 2024
  • The Greatest Showman (category Cultural depictions of P. T. Barnum)
    heavily fictionalized depiction of the life of P. T. Barnum, a showman and entertainer who created the Barnum & Bailey Circus, and its star attractions. The...
    71 KB (6,275 words) - 22:48, 23 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fiji mermaid
    made and exhibited under similar names and pretexts. P. T. Barnum exhibited the original in Barnum's American Museum in New York in 1842, but it then disappeared—likely...
    13 KB (1,352 words) - 06:09, 19 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Forest King
    Forest King (category P. T. Barnum)
    City by rail. In 1870, P.T. Barnum, the renowned showman, acquired the tree and added it to his New York attraction. In 1874, Barnum gifted the tree to Frank...
    17 KB (2,249 words) - 18:04, 13 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cardiff Giant
    Cardiff Giant (category P. T. Barnum)
    site. Both it and an unauthorized copy made by P. T. Barnum are still being displayed. P.T. Barnum's is on display at Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum...
    20 KB (2,346 words) - 05:22, 18 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Barnum's American Museum
    York City, from 1841 to 1865. The museum was owned by famous showman P. T. Barnum, who purchased Scudder's American Museum in 1841. The museum offered...
    18 KB (1,789 words) - 06:46, 28 July 2024
  • Christmas. He also appeared as General Tom Thumb in the A&E original movie P.T. Barnum. Evans also had guest spots on Ally McBeal, 7th Heaven, and Poltergeist:...
    6 KB (357 words) - 14:43, 24 November 2024
  • February 19, 1836) was an African-American woman who was exhibited by P.T. Barnum with the false claim that she was the 161-year-old nursing mammy of George...
    9 KB (927 words) - 22:07, 18 November 2024
  • and eventually joined forces with P.T. Barnum. Following the second fire that razed Barnum's American Museum, Barnum, the museum's proprietor, decided...
    9 KB (1,229 words) - 17:13, 1 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Michael Crawford
    original London production of Cy Coleman's Barnum (1981) as the illustrious American showman P. T. Barnum. He trained at the Big Apple Circus School in...
    59 KB (5,649 words) - 04:25, 25 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Iranistan
    Iranistan (category P. T. Barnum)
    commissioned by P. T. Barnum in 1848. It was designed by Bohemian-American architect Leopold Eidlitz. At this "beautiful country seat" Barnum played host...
    10 KB (1,018 words) - 18:50, 20 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Barnum Museum
    The Barnum Museum is a museum at 820 Main Street in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. It has an extensive collection related to P. T. Barnum and...
    11 KB (1,160 words) - 14:12, 23 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Barnum Brown
    Bones, was an American paleontologist. Named after the circus showman P. T. Barnum, he discovered the first documented remains of Tyrannosaurus during a...
    17 KB (2,001 words) - 14:30, 18 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fedor Jeftichew
    Petroff", was recruited by a P. T. Barnum agent in 1884, and joined Barnum in America as "Jo-Jo The Dog-Faced Boy" Barnum created a story that involved...
    4 KB (437 words) - 06:23, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Famous Trick Donkeys
    printed on a card supposed to promote P.T. Barnum's circus. At that time, the puzzle was first called "P.T. Barnum's trick mules". Millions of cards were...
    7 KB (751 words) - 20:01, 25 October 2024
  • There's a sucker born every minute (category P. T. Barnum)
    "There's a sucker born every minute" is a phrase closely associated with P. T. Barnum, an American showman of the mid-19th century, although there is no evidence...
    7 KB (824 words) - 18:41, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Exhibition tree
    London: R. S. Francis. 1857. p. 5. The Crystal Palace Penny Guide. Crystal Palace Printing Office, Sydenham. August 1864. p. 10. Hawken, Paul (2008) [2007]...
    14 KB (952 words) - 16:10, 17 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of Bridgeport, Connecticut
    city's most famous resident has been circus-promoter and once-mayor P.T. Barnum, who built four houses in the city (Iranistan and Waldemere were the...
    40 KB (4,591 words) - 20:30, 22 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Prince Randian
    roll cigarettes with his lips. He was brought to the United States by P.T. Barnum in 1889, at the age of 18, and was a popular Coney Island carnival and...
    6 KB (614 words) - 23:34, 22 October 2024
  • named after P. T. Barnum Barnum (musical), a Broadway musical based on P.T. Barnum's life Barnum's American Museum, New York City, US Barnum, the largest...
    1 KB (193 words) - 07:53, 8 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for George Hamilton (actor)
    on the TV series Jenny (1997). He was in Casper Meets Wendy (1998), P.T. Barnum (1999), and She's Too Tall (1999). He was a semi-regular celebrity guest...
    37 KB (4,151 words) - 22:19, 11 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dime museum
    friendly connection to, and sometimes competition with, P. T. Barnum.[citation needed] Barnum and Moses Kimball even shared "Fee Gee Mermaids" on a regular...
    6 KB (662 words) - 01:04, 22 December 2024
  • to those given by showman P. T. Barnum. The Barnum effect is manifested in response to statements that are called "Barnum statements", meaning that general...
    15 KB (1,760 words) - 19:41, 23 August 2024
  • The Mighty Barnum is a 1934 film starring Wallace Beery as P.T. Barnum. The movie was written by Gene Fowler and Bess Meredyth, adapted from their play...
    3 KB (185 words) - 10:40, 22 December 2024