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Barnum Living Unicorn in America

02 01 Barnum Only Living Rhinoceros or Unicorn

The only living, Rhinoceros, or “Unicorn”, in America. Now attracting such crowds of wonder loving people. At Barnum’s Museum. Broadsheet issued as part of Barnum’s Gallery of Wonders No. 9 by Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888) of 158 Nassau Street, New York. Probably issued in 1849, for one of the ventures of Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891). Note the oversized horn. (New-York Historical Society, Print Room Broadsides PR-055-02-16-02)

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