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Dime museums were institutions that were popular at the end of the 19th century in the United States. Designed as centers for entertainment and moral education...

spread of the shows that were commonly seen at amusement parks, circuses, dime museums and vaudeville. The amusement park industry flourished in the United...

Look up Dime or dime in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dime or Dimes may refer to: Dime (United States coin) Dime (Canadian coin) Dark Internet Mail...

the Boylston Museum (also called the New Boylston Museum) in 1875 at 667 Washington Street. It operated as both a theatre and a dime museum. Its founder...

The American Dime Museum (ADM) was co-founded in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, by artist and antique dealer Richard Horne and James Taylor, writer...

December 26, 1873. "The New American Museum". The Sun. New York. January 17, 1877. "Eugene Robinson's Dime Museum". The Memphis Appeal. Memphis, Tennessee...

1945) was an American bearded lady who worked in circus sideshows, dime museums and carnivals, who used various stage names including Princess Olga,...

Fair in 1893 before returning to New York City and working at Huber's Dime Museum for "near-starvation wages".: 160  In 1894, Houdini met a fellow performer...

women who acquired tattoos and performed in circuses, sideshows, and dime show museums as means for earning a substantial living. At the height of their...

many sources, including the concert saloon, minstrelsy, freak shows, dime museums, and literary American burlesque. Called "the heart of American show...

He started his professional career making posters and performing for dime museums, and in 1898 began illustrating newspapers and magazines. In 1903 he...

Black Lodge Timur; Andrew McKenna Lee & David T. Little, producers (The Dime Museum; Isaura String Quartet) Best Choral Performance Saariaho: Reconnaissance...

flea circus. Professor Heckler's flea circus (in residence at Hubert's Dime Museum in Times Square, New York, until 1957) can be seen in the background...

her career, she became very well-known, performing for circuses and dime museums across the country. She was remembered for the exceptionally high salary...

concert halls, lecture halls, meeting spaces, etc. Some operated as dime museums, and some as motion picture houses. Some of the buildings that formerly...

was featured in a rather satirical cartoon called Casey Corner Kids Dime Museum but he was drawn as a bearded, balding old man wearing a green nightshirt...

In 1885 Stratton and his wife were engaged at a new dime museum in Boston called the World's Museum, Menagerie, and Acquarium. Six months after surviving...

got work performing at the recently opened Kohl and Middleton's Dime Museum. Dime Museums, popularized by PT Barnum, combined 'human oddities' like conjoined...