@BarnumMuseum

Inspiring curiosity, creativity and confidence through instructive entertainment. Instagram: https://xitter.cf/t.co/wKQYQolXeM

 Bridgeport, CT
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Joined October 2009
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★ Just published a new episode of Becoming Barnum: The Journey to Fame and Fortune: The Journey to Fame and Fortune. Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/8bc396…

The Journey to Fame and Fortune | Becoming Barnum: The Journey to...

BECOMING BARNUM: The Journey to Fame and Fortune The Journey to Fame and Fortune Learn more about PT Barnum’s Letter Copy Book here:  https://archive.org/details/historylocofoco02byrdgoog/page/n6/m...

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★ Just published a new episode of Becoming Barnum: The Journey to Fame and Fortune: Wonderful Discoveries. Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/00a8fb…

Wonderful Discoveries | Becoming Barnum: The Journey to Fame and...

Learn more about PT Barnum’s Letter Copy Book here:  https://archive.org/details/historylocofoco02byrdgoog/page/n6/mode/2up https://tinyurl.com/BarnumArchive https://tinyurl.com/FAMILY-EXHIBITOR...

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★ Just published a new episode of Becoming Barnum: The Journey to Fame and Fortune: Igniting Interest: Barnum’s Views on the Loco-Foco Party. Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/a2d909…

Igniting Interest: Barnum’s Views on the Loco-Foco Party | Becoming...

BECOMING BARNUM: The Journey to Fame and Fortune Igniting Interest: Barnum’s Views on the Loco-Foco Party   Learn more about PT Barnum’s Letter Copy Book here:  https://archive.org/details/historyl...

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★ Just published a new episode of Becoming Barnum: The Journey to Fame and Fortune: I Entrust You with a Small Secret . Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/7247bb…

I Entrust You with a Small Secret | Becoming Barnum: The Journey to...

BECOMING BARNUM: The Journey to Fame and Fortune I Entrust You with a Small Secret  - Episode 35 In this episode of the Becoming Barnum podcast, P.T. Barnum makes a secret trip back to America to...

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★ Just published a new episode of Becoming Barnum: The Journey to Fame and Fortune: Instructive Entertainments: Early 19th Century Panoramas. Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/1bc8ae…

Instructive Entertainments: Early 19th Century Panoramas | Becoming...

BECOMING BARNUM: The Journey to Fame and Fortune Instructive Entertainments: Early 19th Century Panoramas - Episode 34 In this episode of the Becoming Barnum podcast, P.T. Barnum rented breathtaking...

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★ Just published a new episode of Becoming Barnum: The Journey to Fame and Fortune: Imitators & Followers will get Poor Gleanings. Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/2896c4…

Imitators & Followers will get Poor Gleanings | Becoming Barnum: The...

BECOMING BARNUM: The Journey to Fame and Fortune Imitators & Followers will get Poor Gleanings - Episode 33 In this episode of the Becoming Barnum podcast, P.T. Barnum was managing multiple projects...

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★ Just published a new episode of Becoming Barnum: The Journey to Fame and Fortune: My Character and Peculiarities So Correctly Portrayed. Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/702fb3…

My Character and Peculiarities So Correctly Portrayed | Becoming...

Learn more about PT Barnum’s Letter Copy Book here:  https://tinyurl.com/BarnumArchive https://tinyurl.com/FAMILY-EXHIBITOR https://tinyurl.com/Barnumletter https://tinyurl.com/John-Austin https://...

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★ Just published a new episode of Becoming Barnum: The Journey to Fame and Fortune: Poetical Puffing. Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/b40fd9…

Poetical Puffing | Becoming Barnum: The Journey to Fame and Fortune

BECOMING BARNUM: The Journey to Fame and Fortune Poetical Puffing - Episode 31 In this episode of the Becoming Barnum podcast, Barnum was worried about his employees at the American Museum. He wanted...

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★ Just published a new episode of Becoming Barnum: The Journey to Fame and Fortune: A Great Country for Wealth and Grandeur . Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/3e18e0…

A Great Country for Wealth and Grandeur | Becoming Barnum: The...

In this episode of the Becoming Barnum podcast, join us as we follow Barnum as he tries to navigate a problem at the theater and make sure everything is running smoothly. He's also eager to get a...

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★ Just published a new episode of Becoming Barnum: The Journey to Fame and Fortune: Mademoiselle Venus. Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/3d3527…

Mademoiselle Venus | Becoming Barnum: The Journey to Fame and Fortune

P.T. Barnum purchased an "Anatomical Venus" figure in Paris for his American Museum in New York. This was a lifelike wax figure, with internal organs arranged in a cavity within the torso, for...

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★ Just published a new episode of Becoming Barnum: The Journey to Fame and Fortune: A Good Education is Better than Riches. Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/87a089…

A Good Education is Better than Riches | Becoming Barnum: The Journey...

In this episode of the Becoming Barnum podcast, we explore 2 letters from P.T. Barnum to daughter Caroline & wife Charity. He emphasizes the importance of education, particularly the French language...

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★ Just published a new episode of Becoming Barnum: The Journey to Fame and Fortune: Do the Best You Can for Yourself. Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/87b576…

Do the Best You Can for Yourself | Becoming Barnum: The Journey to...

In this episode of the Becoming Barnum podcast, we bring you P.T. Barnum's own words as he writes to his manager Fordyce Hitchcock, laying out his plans for the American Museum. Discover his strategy...

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★ Just published a new episode of Becoming Barnum: The Journey to Fame and Fortune: Going It Like a Rush. Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/ce9285…

Going It Like a Rush | Becoming Barnum: The Journey to Fame and...

In this episode of the Becoming Barnum podcast, we dive into P.T. Barnum's 1846 letters to his uncle Alanson Taylor. He shares his business advice for their partnership in the Baltimore Museum,...

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★ Just published a new episode of Becoming Barnum: The Journey to Fame and Fortune: A New Chapter for a New Year . Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/08c016…

A New Chapter for a New Year | Becoming Barnum: The Journey to Fame...

In this episode of the Becoming Barnum podcast, A “new chapter” is about to begin in P. T. Barnum’s business life as we learn from a group of letters he composed—appropriately—on New Year’s Day in...

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★ Just published a new episode of Becoming Barnum: The Journey to Fame and Fortune: I Never Wish to be a Millionaire. Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/547635…

I Never Wish to be a Millionaire | Becoming Barnum: The Journey to...

In this episode of the Becoming Barnum podcast, P.T. Barnum addresses that he is aware that his wife Charity is pregnant. This information is revealed in letters written by Barnum in December of...

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★ Just published a new episode of Becoming Barnum: The Journey to Fame and Fortune: Bills and Boardmen. Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/4511a7…

Bills and Boardmen | Becoming Barnum: The Journey to Fame and Fortune

In this episode of Becoming Barnum, P. T. Barnum works to promote Gen. Tom Thumb's performances in London using various methods of advertising, including handbills and vans. The episode also explores...

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★ Just published a new episode of Becoming Barnum: The Journey to Fame and Fortune: Thank you & Happy Holidays! . Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/f80c63…

Thank you & Happy Holidays! | Becoming Barnum: The Journey to Fame...

Thank you for listening to 'Becoming Barnum: The Journey to Fame and Fortune.' We will be taking a break for the holidays but will return in the new year with more stories about P.T. Barnum and Tom...

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★ Just published a new episode of Becoming Barnum: The Journey to Fame and Fortune: Last Letters from France . Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/8b89ce…

Last Letters from France | Becoming Barnum: The Journey to Fame and...

This episode of Becoming Barnum, Barnum sits down to write letters to various family members, plus one to his museum manager who was “like family” to Barnum, and another to the father of Gen. Tom...

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★ Just published a new episode of Becoming Barnum: The Journey to Fame and Fortune: The Old American is Bound to Do Wonders Yet . Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/58fc5c…

The Old American is Bound to Do Wonders Yet | Becoming Barnum: The...

This episode of Becoming Barnum discusses letters at the end of November 1845; P. T. Barnum's wide-ranging ambitions seem tamped down a bit, at least insofar as his communication to his American...

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★ Just published a new episode of Becoming Barnum: The Journey to Fame and Fortune: We Have Got Quite Territory Enough. Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/e74607…

We Have Got Quite Territory Enough | Becoming Barnum: The Journey to...

This episode of Becoming Barnum discusses letters containing political remarks and comments about war—content somewhat different from what we’ve seen up to this point. Barnum was not referring to the...

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