New museum. The public are respectfully informed, that an elegant exhibition of wax statues will be opened at...
Description
In 1825 Andrew Jackson was still being celebrated as a victorious general even though he had just lost his first bid for the presidency. This advertisement was for a wax museum that presumably traveled from town to town. It displayed the likenesses of “celebrated characters, as large as life,” including: “Gen. George Washington. A striking likeness of General Lafayette. General Jackson, the hero of New Orleans. Commodores Bainbridge, Hull, and Porter. An elegant figure, representing the Goddess of Liberty.” The copy in the William C. Cook Jacksonian Era Collection was filled out in manuscript for the Charles Stearns Hotel in Medford on Tuesday the 30th day of August 1825.
Title
New museum. The public are respectfully informed, that an elegant exhibition of wax statues will be opened at...
Publisher
[Medford, N.Y.? : s.n.,]
Date
not after 1825
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Citation
“New museum. The public are respectfully informed, that an elegant exhibition of wax statues will be opened at...,” Collecting the Jacksonian Era: How Books Become Library Collections at AAS, accessed July 6, 2024, https://collections.americanantiquarian.org/jacksonianera/items/show/36.