[Rarebooks] FS: In our new Catalog: 1873 Boston Museum / Theater

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

 From our new Catalog 352 -
A Selection of Books & Ephemera for October, 2014.
<http://www.joslinhall.com/Catalog352.pdf>

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"History of the Boston Museum with a description of Alterations and 
Improvements. Season 1873-4"

  Published in Boston by Lincoln and Company in 1873.

The Boston Museum, or Boston Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts, "was a 
theatre, wax museum, natural history museum, zoo, and art museum" 
founded by Moses Kimball in 1841 with "items acquired from Ethan Allen 
Greenwood's former New England Museum". The museum portion would exhibit 
works by John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, and Benjamin West. 
"Early live shows presented the musical olio, consisting of solos on 
glass bells, and birch-bark whistling." Performers who appeared on the 
stage included Edwin Booth, John Wilkes Booth, and E.H. Sothern. In 
addition, the Museum staged the the first American performance of 
Gilbert and Sullivan when H.M.S. Pinafore debuted on November 25, 1878.

In 1850 the museum claimed- "The museum is the largest, most valuable, 
and best arranged in the United States. It comprises no less than seven 
different museums, to which has been added the present year, besides the 
constant daily accumulation of articles, one half of the celebrated 
Peale's Philadelphia Museum, swelling the already immense collection to 
upwards of half a million articles, the greatest amount of objects of 
interest to be found together at any one place in America; and an 
entirely new hall of wax statuary.... and the immense collection of 
birds, beasts, fish, insects and reptiles... paintings, engravings and 
statuary... Egyptian mummies... family of Peruvian mummies; the 
duck-billed platypus... the curious half-fish, half-human Fejee 
Mermaid... elephants and ourang-outangs...". This text notes that "The 
Boston Museum, by reason of its many years of successful management, by 
its honorable record and by its never failing popularity as a place of 
public resort and entertainment, may fairly be entitled to rank as one 
of the permanent and standard institutions of the city". The standard 
institution closed its doors in 1903. In addition to a complete 
description of the Museum, this scarce pamphlet includes a number of 
interesting period advertisements for Boston fashion and jewelry 
merchants.

Softcover. 4.5"x7.5", 24 pages, several line illustrations. Minor soil, 
some wear, several pages with very slight adhesion loss and some pages 
with small chips and short rips and some general soil. [41515] $85 -


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