1. Phineas Taylor Barnum:
Prince of Humbugs
By Michelle Bax
H Econ – Mrs. Gluck
Per. 5

2. Entertainer Extraordinaire!
Feeling Curious? Feeling
Bored?
Come visit our genuine
Be one of the first to her the
voice the amazing Swedish
If you see a strange, shabbily Nightingale, Jenny Lind! Tickets
dressed man carring bricks around for her first conference in America
New York, follow him! Every hour, are currently being auctioned off!
on the hour, he will lead you
straight to the Museum, where
hours of delight await you.

3. Marvels Galore!
See the REAL Cardiff Giant! Don’t be
fooled by the one on display by
associates of the fraud Hannum; we have
the true archaeological masterpiece!
Meet the childhood nurse of
the Father of our Country,
George Washington! Is she
alive or automaton?

4. Meet the
enigmatic
Bearded
Lady!
Encounter the mysterious Fejee mermaid!
Zip the Pinhead: Man or
Ape? Decide for yourself!
Be entertained
by General
Tom Thumb,
history’s
smallest
gentleman! See Jumbo, the World’s Largest Elephant!

5. Sources
Pictures:
Pictures:
 161 Year Old Joice Heath. Digital image. Cynical-C Blog. Web. 3 Mar. 2010. <http://www.cynical-
Blog.
c.com/archives/2005_03.html>.
 Anna Gonlt, Bearded Lady. Digital image. 'Wolf Man' Condition down to Huge DNA Malfunction. NewScientist.com.
Gonlt, NewScientist.com.
Web. 3 Mar. 2010.
 Barnum, P. T. Digital image. Caster Blog. Wordpress.com. Web. 3 Mar. 2010.
Wordpress.com.
<http://castercomm.wordpress.com/2009/03/>.
 Cardiff Giant. Digital image. Top 10 Scientific Frauds and Hoaxes. Listverese. Web. 3 Mar. 2010.
Listverese.
<http://www.ptbarnum.org/humbugs.html>.
<http://www.ptbarnum.org/humbugs.html>.
 A Drawing of PT Barnum's Famous "Fejee" Mermaid. Digital image. Laputan Logic. Bloglines. Web. 3 Mar. 2010.
"Fejee" Bloglines.
<http://www.laputanlogic.com/articles/2006/04/index.html>.
 Football Players Pose with Jumbo. Digital image. WikiVisual. MediaWiki. Web. 3 Mar. 2010.
MediaWiki.
<http://en.wikivisual.com/index.php/Tufts_University>.
<http://en.wikivisual.com/index.php/Tufts_University>.
 General Tom Thumb (Tom Stratton) with Barnum. Digital image. American Antiquities. Web. 3 Mar. 2010.
<http://www.americanantiquities.com/articles/article%209.html>.
 Zip the Pinhead. Digital image. Art's Strange World. Wordpress.com. Web. 3 Mar. 2010.
Wordpress.com.
<http://artruch.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/strange-facts-zip-the-pinhead/>.
Information:
Information:
 Works Cited
 Barnum, Phineas T. "The Art of Money Getting." VirtueScience.com. Web. 02 Mar. 2010.
<http://www.virtuescience.com/art-of-money-getting.html>.
http://www.virtuescience.com/art-of-money-getting.html>.
 "The Exhibitions." "In Business for Myself": P. T. Barnum and the Management of Spectacle. American Studies @
The University of Virginia. Web. 02 Mar. 2010.
<http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma02/freed/Barnum/exhibitions.html>.
 "Notes for Phineas Taylor "P.T." BARNUM." Barnum Famliy Genealogy. Web. 02 Mar. 2010.
<http://www.barnum.org/nti00431.htm>.
 "Phineas Taylor Barnum." Sniggle.net: the Culture Jammer's Encyclopedia. Web. 02 Mar. 2010.
Sniggle.net:
<http://sniggle.net/barnum.php>.
<http://sniggle.net/barnum.php>.
 "PT Barnum, The Shakespeare of Advertising." Ptbarnum.org -- Meet P.T. Barnum, The Shakespeare of
Advertising! Web. 02 Mar. 2010. <http://www.ptbarnum.org/humbugs.html>.
<http://www.ptbarnum.org/humbugs.html>.