Weird and Wonderful: The Dime Museum in America

Appendix B. Dime Museums

Appendix B . Dime Museum s The followin g i s a list o f nineteenth-centur y dim e museum s tha t I hav e come acros s durin g m y research . No t al l th e dim e museum s liste d be low were include d i n th e text . I hop e tha t thi s list will continue t o gro w as scholar s becom e mor e familia r wit h th e subject . A wor d o f cau tion fo r researchers : No t al l institution s calle d museum s wer e actuall y dime museums . Fo r example , New York's Frankli n Museu m wa s solel y a theater. BOSTON Austin and Stone's Museum B. F. Keith's Museum Boston Eden Musee Boston Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts (referred t o as the Boston Museum) Gaiety Museum Grand Museum Keith and Batchelder's Mammoth Museum (change d to the Gaiety Hall and Museum) New York Dime Museum CHICAGO Arthur Putney's Museum Chicago Eden Musee Clark Street Museum Colonel Wood's Museum Congress Museum Epstein's Museum Globe Museum Libby Prison Museum London Dime Museum Olympic Museum West Side Museum Whit John's Museum Wonderland Compoun d 151 A P P E N D I X B NEW YOR K Alexander's Museum Apollo Museum Barnum's American Museum Barnum's New American Museum (Barnu m and Van Amburgh Museum ) Banvard's Museum Berlin Academy of Waxworks Broadway Museum and Menagerie Bunnell's New American Museum (Bunnell' s Museum) Bunnell's Old London Museu m Chatham Square Museum Doris's Eighth Avenue Museum Doris's Harlem Museu m Dr. Kahn's Museum of Anatomy Eden Musee Egyptian Museum European Museu m Gaiety Museum George Wood's Museum and Metropolitan Theatre (change d to Wood's Museum and Menagerie but referred t o as Wood's Museum) Globe Dime Museum Gothic Museum Grand Dime Museum Huber's Mammoth Eighth Avenue Museum Huber's Palace Museum (late r known as Huber's Museum ) Hyde and Behman's New Park Theatre Museum and Menagerie International Museu m Kimball's Star Museum Mammoth Museu m Meade's Midget Hall Morris and Hickman's East Side Museum Mt. Morris Museum New Natural Museum New York Museum New York Museum of Anatomy Standard Museu m Worth and Huber's Palace Museum Worth's Model Museum and Family Theatre Worth's Museum 152 D I M E M U S E U M S PHILADELPHIA Brandenburgh's Ninth and Arch Museum Chestnut Street Dime Museum City Museum Colonel Joseph H. Wood's Museum Eighth Street Museum Egyptian Musee Great European Museu m Hagar and Campbell's New Dime Museum Peck's Great Dime Museum South Street Museum Temple Theatre and Egyptian Musee OTHER CITIE S Anderson's Musee, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Beach Street Museum (cit y unknown) Bristol's Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts Charles Hunt's Museum, Baltimore Drew's Museum, Clevelan d Drew's Museum, Providenc e Geary's Wonderland, Ft. Wayne, Indiana Grand Museum, Allegheny, Pennsylvania Harry Davis Eden Musee, Pittsburgh Harry Davis Museum, Altoona, Pennsylvania Herzog's Museum, Baltimore Litt Museum, Milwaukee McGinley's, St. Louis Miracle Museum, Pittsburg h Musee, Youngstown, Ohi o Newark Dime Museum, Newark Pacific Museum of Anatomy and Natural Science, San Francisco Peck and Fursman's Museum (cit y unknown) Pleasant Street Museum, Providenc e Punnell's Museum (city unknown) Trowbridge Museum, Albany, New York Troy Museum, Troy, New York Vine Street, Cincinnat i Westminster, Providenc e 153 A P P E N D I X B Wonderland, Buffal o Wonderland, Detroi t Wonderland, Erie, Pennsylvania Wonderland, Rochester, New York 154 ...