Psst! The Prince of humbug lives! (circus leader P.T. Barnum, Barnum Museum, Bridgeport)

From: U.S. News & World Report | Date: June 19, 1989 | Copyright information

People, people, draw near! The renovated Barnum Museum is here! For $4 for Mom and Pop, $3 for Gran' Pa and Ma and $2 for lads and lassies up to 18, you can enter this Bridgeport hall of wonders (it opened June 10) and feast your eyes on the astounding artifacts of Mr. P.T. Barnum, Esq., no less than tbe Greatest Showman on Earth from the 1830s to 1891, when he retired to the Big Top in the Sky.

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