Lot 161
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[American Circus / Menagerie]: Hanington's American Zoological Museum
Advertising broadside for a menagerie of animals to be "seen alive"

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
Rational Amusement for the Holy-Days. Fresh addition of LIVING ANIMALS, viz. LIONS, TIGERS, LEOPARDS, JAGUAR, CAMEL, SERVAL, &c. &c. Descriptive Catalogue of the Contents of HANINGTON'S AMERICAN ZOOLOGICAL MUSEUM. Corner of Canal Street and Broadway...
broadside, laid-down onto card with some tears and loss, 19 x 45cm, several woodcuts, no date given but probably the first half of the 19th century
Footnote
Note: No other copies traced.
Very little information is available about 'Hanington's American Zoological Museum'. It is possible that Hanington is William J. Hanington (or his brother, Henry) who famously produced moving dioramas from the 1830s to the 1850s, which were displayed on Broadway, near St Paul's Chapel - about 15 minutes' walk from Canal Street. The broadsides for 'Hanington's Grand Moving Dioramas' are very similar to this example.
