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Any suggestions where to find a good description of the Western Museum of Cincinnati in the 1860s? Pretty cool place, basically a forerunner of P.T. Barnum's museum in New York.
There are lots of eye-witness descriptions of the Western Museum in its heyday in the 1820s-1840s, but I'm looking for something in the 1860-1867 era, just before it closed.
Found a JSTOR article at http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=000...3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q . The first page has a good description of the museum in the late 1830s (though I'm guessing it's partially from the 1840s, unless the museum really did have a Feejee Mermaid before Feejee Mermaids became cool in 1842). The closest computer with full JSTOR access is almost an hour away, so it's not worth it, unless there's an equally good description later on of the museum in the 1860s.
Any suggestions where to look? Can anyone with JSTOR tell me how much about the 1860s is in the article?
Hank Trent
hanktrent@voyager.net
There are lots of eye-witness descriptions of the Western Museum in its heyday in the 1820s-1840s, but I'm looking for something in the 1860-1867 era, just before it closed.
Found a JSTOR article at http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=000...3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q . The first page has a good description of the museum in the late 1830s (though I'm guessing it's partially from the 1840s, unless the museum really did have a Feejee Mermaid before Feejee Mermaids became cool in 1842). The closest computer with full JSTOR access is almost an hour away, so it's not worth it, unless there's an equally good description later on of the museum in the 1860s.
Any suggestions where to look? Can anyone with JSTOR tell me how much about the 1860s is in the article?
Hank Trent
hanktrent@voyager.net
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