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From the September 28, 1891 Brooklyn Daily Eagle:
“Milwaukee, Wis.—Barney Baldwin, the dime museum freak, who is known as ‘the living man with the broken neck,’ attempted suicide here last evening by taking poison. He was removed to the Emergency Hospital and is in a fair way to recover.”
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Chang, the Chinese Giant.
P.T. Barnum founded the first New York dime museum in 1841, but in the years after the Civil War they really proliferated throughout the city. Despite the word “museum,” there was no fine art on display in these exhibition halls–just sideshow and freak acts. The following are actual dime museum attractions that were advertised during the 1880s in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
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