BARNUM PHINEAS TAYLOR Partly printed Check Signed PTBarnum

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BARNUM, PHINEAS TAYLOR. Partly-printed Check Signed, "PTBarnum," to S.H. Hurd in the amount of $100.00 drawn on the Broadway Bank, check number 24. Revenue stamp at left edge. Approximately 3x7 inches; faint dampstaining at top and bottom edges, endorsement signatures on verso with minor bleed-through, closed cancellation slices (not affecting signature); matted in a double-sided frame. New York, 19 Oct[ober] 1865

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In July of the same year that this check was signed, a fire destroyed Barnum's American Museum in New York, causing $400,000 of damage.