"Scrapbook 1889 1890"
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891
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content: P.T. Barnum Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1889-1890
container: label: Container
content: Box 1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Described the trip to and from London when Barnum and Bailey took the circus there in 1889 February 1890. It included about 440 performers, 380 horses, camels, bear, monkeys, leopards and 13 elephants, lions, tigers, llama, and deer.  Went for 100 days and cost about 12,000 per day.  Also 80 tons of advertising materials were taken over.  Barnum wanted to show that Americans could do anything better.  The advertising techniques and circus show itself wowed them in England.

**It is interesting to note that on the trip over meat was frozen in cubical cakes and packed in refrigerators between layers of ice.