P. T. Barnums Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan and Hippodrome in United States

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P. T. Barnums Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan and Hippodrome
Chattanooga 1872
Type	circus
Founded	1871
Closed down	1875
Country	United States
Related persons
Owner	P. T. Barnum


Key People	1871-1875: James L. Hutchinson (agent)
Zoological department

Directors	1873-1875: Charles White (menagerie superintendent)

Animal trainers
1873-: Frank Dooley

Elephant department
Record history
History of updates	2022-04-08

Latest document update	2022-04-08 16:54:57

Description

P. T. Barnums Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan and Hippodrome, United States , was founded in 1871. P. T. Barnums Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan and Hippodrome closed down in 1875.

Comments / picturesOwner: P. T. Barnum.

1871: In Brooklyn, New York in 1871 with William Cameron Coup, P. T. Barnum established P. T. Barnums Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan & Hippodrome, a traveling amalgamation of circus, menagerie and museum of "freaks", which by 1872 was billing itself as "The Greatest Show on Earth". It went through a number of variants on these names: "P.T. Barnums Travelling Worlds Fair, Great Roman Hippodrome and Greatest Show On Earth".

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P. T. Barnums Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan and Hippodrome in United States United+States

1873: The Grand Entre with Great Performing Elephants: Ring No. 1: Gipsey, Introduced by Col. Charles White, Ring No. 2: Betsey, Introduced by Frank Dooley.

1876: Setup as P.T. Barnums Greatest Show on Earth

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Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan (2025). P. T. Barnums Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan and Hippodrome, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=1491. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

https://classic.circushistory.org/History/PTB1880.htm

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