[MUSEUMS]. American Museum, Under the Patronage of the Tammany Society or Columban Order. [Process facsimile broadside, ca 1860, after New York: Thomas and James Swords, June 1791].
Sale 1069 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Lots Open
Aug 19, 2022
Lots Close
Aug 30, 2022
Timed Online / Cincinnati
Estimate
$500 -
$700
Item was unsold
Lot Description
[MUSEUMS]. American Museum, Under the Patronage of the Tammany Society or Columban Order. [Process facsimile broadside, ca 1860, after New York: Thomas and James Swords, June 1791].
8 1/8 x 11 7/8 in. broadside (small portion of left margin lacking, old creases, light toning). Verso with a facsimile of a 1797 document regarding elections in New York.
The American Museum "under the patronage of the Tammany Society" was announced in this broadside originally published in 1791, a public venture unique among fraternal organizations. The museum was operated by John Pintard and Gardner Baker who took control of the Museum from the Society in 1795. After his death, it was purchased by William I. Waldron, who in turn sold it to painter Edward Savage, to John Scudder by 1809. After his death in 1821, it passed through his heirs before they sold it P.T. Barnum who rebranded it to Barnum's American Museum. The collections, which persisted until 1865 consisted of both education and "strange" attractions. Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 1901, p. 126.
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