Weird and Wonderful: The Dime Museum in America

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Notes NOTES T O TH E PREFAC E 1. Se e Patricia Click , The Spirit of the Times: Amusements in Nineteenth Century Baltimore, Norfolk, and Richmond (Charlottesville : Universit y Pres s of Virginia , 1989). NOTES T O CHAPTE R 1 1. Se e J. Orosz , "Curator s an d Culture : An Interpretiv e Histor y o f the Mu seum Movemen t i n America , 1773-1870 " (Ph.D . diss. , Cas e Wester n Reserve , 1986); an d Charle s Colema n Sellers , Mr. Peak's Museum: Charles Willson Peak and the First Popular Museum of Natural Science and Art (Ne w York: Norton , 1979). 2. Se e Richard D. Altick, The Shows of London: A Panoramic History of Exhibitions , 1600-1862 (Cambridge : Harvar d Universit y Press , 1978) , for a discussion on cabinets of wonders. 3. Th e Linnaean system was named after Carolus Linnaeus (1707-78), a Swedish biologist. 4. Se e Georg e C . D . Odell , Annals of the New York Stage, vols. 2- 4 (Ne w York: Columbia University Press, 1927^9) . 5. Se e Orosz , "Curator s an d Culture" ; Sellers , Mr. Peak's Museum; an d Nei l Harris, "Cultura l Institution s an d America n Modernization, " Journal of Library History 16 , no. 1 (winter 1981) . 6. Gunthe r Barth, City People (New York: Oxford Universit y Press, 1980), 21; Lawrence W. Levine, Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America (Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1988), 176. 7. Rober t C. Toll, Blacking Up (New York: Oxford Universit y Press, 1974), 4. 8. Madelo n Powers, "Decay from Within: The Inevitable Doom o f the American Saloon," in Drinking, ed . Susanna Barnes an d Robi n Roo m (Berkeley : Uni versity of California Press , 1991), 113. 9. Ro y Rosenwieg , Eight Hours for What We Will (Ne w York : Cambridg e University Press, 1983), 103. 10. Rut h Bordin , Women and Temperance (Philadelphia : Templ e Universit y Press, 1981), 5. 11. Joh n Frick , " 'He Dran k fro m th e Poisone d Cup' : Theatre , Cultur e an d Temperance i n Antebellum America, " Journal of American Drama and Theatre 4, no. 2 (spring 1992): 32. 12. Joh n Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (New York: Hill and Wang, 1978), 4; Stuart Ewen and Elizabeth Ewen, Channels 155 N O T E S T O C H A P T E R 1 of Desire: Mass Images and the Shaping of American Consciousness (Ne w York : McGraw-Hill, 1982) , 15, 30. 13. Toll , Blacking Up, 10. 14. Claudi a D . Johnson , "Tha t Guilt y Third Tier : Prostitutio n i n Nineteent h Century America n Theatres, " i n Victorian America, ed . Danie l Walke r How e (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1976), 113. 15. Levine , Highbrow/Lowbrow, 31 ; Paul DiMaggio , "Cultura l Entrepreneur ship in Nineteenth Centur y Boston," in Rethinking Popular Culture, ed . Chandr a Mukerji an d Michae l Schudso n (Berkeley : University o f California Press , 1991) , 374-75. 16. Brook s McNamara , " C A Congress o f Wonders': Th e Ris e an d Fal l of th e Dime Museum," Emerson Society Quarterly 2 0 (3rd Quarter 1974) : 219. 17. Do n Wilmeth , Variety Entertainment and Outdoor Amusements (West port , Conn.: Greenwood, 1982) , 95. 18. Kasson , Amusing the Million, 4 . 19. Ibid. , 101. 20. Ibid. , 6. 21. Susa n Porter Benson, Stephen Brier, and Roy Rosenzweig, eds., Presenting the Past: Essays on History and the Public (Philadelphia: Templ e Universit y Press , 1986), xvii, xix. 22. Mose s Kimball's Boston Museum was an exception. Kimball was very civicminded and mounted a display tided "Th e Horror of Slavery." 23. Barth , City People, 65. 24. T . Allston Brown , A History of the New York Stage (New York: Benjami n Bloom, 1964) , 592. 25. Se e A. H . Saxon , Selected Letters of P. T. Barnum (Ne w York : Columbi a University Press, 1983), for the correspondence between Kimball and Barnum . 26. Ibid. , 12 ; the "General " is General Tom Thumb . 27. P . T. Barnum wa s known a s the "princ e o f humbugs" for hi s out-and-ou t lies and exaggerations about his museum exhibits . 28. Sta r Museu m advertisement , 1889 ; Austi n an d Stone' s letterhead , n.d. ; New York Museum of Anatomy advertisement, n.d., New York Public Library fo r the Performing Arts. 29. Toll , Blacking Up, 21. 30. Pau l...