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Home / Society / History / By Region / North America / United States / Personas / Barnum, P. T.
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- Barnum Museum - Is housed in Barnum's last great architectural project, at 820 Main Street in downtown Bridgeport CT. The Museum features special exhibits about Barnum, as well as a comprehensive look at his life in and out of the circus. One of the most interesting exhibits is a miniature recreation of Barnum's circus. The model circus contains over 3000 figures and is over 50 years old.
www.barnum-museum.org
- Barnumize your email! - Miraculously modemed via the grandly global silicon cyberspectacular known as www.Ringling.com, this particularly profuse program allows users to goose up their messages in a broadly Barnumific way.
www.ringling.com/activity/email/index.asp
- Encyclopedia Britannica Article on Barnum - A brief biography of Barnum from theatrehistory.com. This article was originally published in Encyclopedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, Volume III. Anonymous. Cambridge: University Press, 1910. p. 417.
www.theatrehistory.com/american/barnum001.html
- Find A Grave - Barnum is buried at the Mountain Grove Cemetery in Bridgeport CT. This site gives you the chance to view his gravesite online, and add some loving comments about the Great Showman.
www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=56
- Meet P.T. Barnum-- The Shakespeare of Advertising - This website explores the life of America's greatest showman, Phineas Taylor Barnum. Learn more about the larger-than-life impresario, and find out about a new show that brings Barnum to life, as portrayed by noted clown and actor Adam G. Gertsacov.
www.ptbarnum.org
- N.Y. Times Obituary of Barnum (April 7, 1891) - Read the obituary of P.T. Barnum as printed in the New York Times, April 7, 1891 (registration may be required)
www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0705.html
- Phineas Taylor Barnum - Short article with links concerning the Cardiff Giant hoax.
www.syntac.net/hoax/barnum.php
- Relatives of P.T. Barnum - An extensive collection of links about Barnum by a distant relative of old Phineas (Rod Davis). Mr. Davis is a genealogical wiz, and is both a 2nd cousin, 4x removed, and a 3rd cousin, 5x removed of Barnum. From a different portion of his website, one can also learn that Barnum and his star attraction, General Tom Thumb, were distantly related!
dav4is.8m.com/Celebrity/BRNM137.html
- Ringling.com: The early history of our circus - Ringling.com's brief biography of Barnum, with an emphasis on the beginnings of the circus
www.ringling.com/explore/history/ptbarnum_1.asp
- Success Methods of P.T. Barnum - The Let's Talk Business Network (http://www.ltbn.com) has put Barnum in their Hall of Fame. This article goes over Barnum's entrepreneurial successes, and goes over 10 principles of Barnum's success
www.ltbn.com/tribbarnum.html
- The University of Bridgeport and Barnum - An essay on the showman's impact on the University of Bridgeport.
www.bridgeport.edu/about/history/paper_02.html
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