"Circus Scrapbook, London 18 "
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 2
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: (Presumably kept by Helen Barnum Rennell, a granddaughter whose name and address appear on back of front cover).  A scrapbook of Barnum and Bailey's show in London from November 16, 1889 to February 20, 1890.  The circus was there for 14 weeks.  The scrapbook also contains cartoons and pictures as well as newspaper articles.  Includes his death and the unveiling two years later of his statue.  Includes some flyers from the Great London Circus.

**Has page with autograph of Barnum to his great grandson.

N.B. There were 5 different ABC books about the circus published in London for the  show.