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Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891)


As adept at self-promotion as he was at publicizing the myriad attractions at his American Museum, P. T. Barnum was a celebrity in his own right when this portrait was made in Brady’s New York Gallery.


Mathew Brady Studio (active 1844–1883)
Albumen silver print
Frederick Hill Meserve Collection
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

 

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