e. t. banum catalog no. 770
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This is a full color, high resolution scan of the circa 1930 Barnum Iron Works catalogue #770 is a follow-up to the previously-uploaded, circa 1920, catalogue #670. This text, however, is replete with additional historical addendum, describing the world, the reasons for, and the importance of Barnum's Works, and latter day, still-visible examples of their manufactures. Please credit me, Ted Haigh, if referencing this work.TRANSCRIPT
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Remnants and evidence of the long-defunct E. T. Barnum Iron & Wire Works are to befound prevalently all around this country and others as well - if one is aware of what one is
seeing. Works of iron and steel tend to last beyond their remembered lives more readily than
much of the fragile ephemera of human existence.
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Upon its founding in 1866, Barnum Iron
was at the center of the great industrial
push toward the new century, still 33
years in the future.
Iron and steel were the coveted crude oil
of their day, as well as the symbolic (andreal) foundations for the American Indus-
trial Revolution or, as it was thought of
at the time, resolute American progress.
U.S. interests in Cuba and the Philip-
pines grew from our hunger for these
metals, and our hunger was insatiable.
Iron and steel made this country whole by
spanning it with railroads. Carnegie, Mor-gan, Rockefeller....just a few names syn-
onymous with sublime unreachable wealth
that germinated from these metals. The
uses grew as the metals and the technolo-
gies for rening them evolved. Skyscrap-
ers, automobiles, giant transatlantic ships,
and the human word itself (conducted viathe steel wire in telegraph and telephone)
existed because of this most sought-after
ore. At the time, the greatest change from
the 19th to 20th Centuries, electricity, was
merely seen as a scientic bonus...added
value to the wealth of advances bequeathed
by the smelting of iron and iron into steel.
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The riches this progress engendered owed outward, and within this world, E. T. Barnums
company was small potatoes. They produced fountains, marquees, cages, fences, gates, and
other examples of ornamental and utilitarian iron. Yet the burgeoning wealth of both the mag-
nates and what would soon become the theretofore unheard of middle class would require
these perquisites, and cities would order re escapes, jail cells, and other infrastructural com-
ponents required of these new centers of production, progress, and population.
Through that lens, Barnum was a big sh.
It is likely the Great Depression killed Barnum
Iron & Wire Works, as it had so many others,
though Barnum had successfully weathered
business crises and economic tumult before.
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E. T. Barnum Iron &
Wire Works Catalog
#770 speaks for itself
as it reveals the prod-
ucts the company pro-
duced in its day, but
it is worth following
with examples of what
remains of Barnums
stock in trade today
as well.
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Interestingly, from a 21st
Century perspective, the most
identiable physical evidence of
Barnums existence remain their
jail cells. Their marquees andre escapes, benches and statu-
ary still dot the country, but the
jails, all of which had engraved
Barnum names plates attached,
formally heralded their history
and heritage.
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Late 19th Century
jail pail, produced
by Barnum intended
for use as an in-cell
latrine by inmates.
On May 16 1902 the city council
instructed the clerk to look for
steel cage jails and get pricing.
On June 6 1902 Papers per-
taining to the plans and specica-
tions of the jail cell was turned
over to the nancial committee.
On October 10 1902 the
Burden City Council authorizer
the payment of $217.00 to E. T.
Barnum Wire and Iron Works
Manufactures of Jail Cells in De-
troit Michigan.
On February 20 1903 W. L.
Hutton was paid $8.00 for paint-
ing the new jail and R. L. Bailey
was paid $2.25 for paint.
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E. T. Barnum Iron & Wire Works-produced benches of the municipal and ornamental garden varieties.
Urban Salvage
Smithsonian Institution
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Boy & Girl Fountain
Janssen Park, Mena,Polk County, Arkansas
E. T. Barnum Wire & Iron Works, founder.
Date: ca. 1914. Dedicated April 1914.
cast zinc, painted; Umbrella: sheet copper
with iron stem; Base: concrete.
City of Mena, Parks Department
From the Smithsonian Art Inventory Catalogue: A fountain sculpture of a boy and girl standing under an
umbrella atop a patch of grass and rocks. The boy is barefoot and has short hair. He is bare-chested and wears
pants that are rolled up at the knees. He holds the open umbrellas handle with his two hands. The girl standsbehind him, to the boys proper left. She is barefoot, wears a kerchief over her head, and a loose-tting, knee-
length, short-sleeved dress, that is slipping off her proper left shoulder. She holds the hem of her dress in her
proper left hand and has her proper
right hand around the boys arm. A
large concrete frog sits in front of the
girls feet, while a smaller frog sits
behind the children. The fountain rests
on a cylindrical base in a circular
basin. Water once rose up through the
umbrella stem and spouted out the topof the umbrella. The piece was dam-
aged in a Nov. 1993 tornado. The
umbrella is a replacement fabricated of
sheet copper.
Preserved with support from local
citizens, and the National Endowment
for the Arts. A project of Heritage
Preservation and Smithsonian Ameri-
can Art Museum.
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Statue by Fisk Iron
Works, fountain by
E.T. Barnum Wire &
Iron Works - 1909.
Sculpture: 7x3x2.
Base: 6-3x5x5.
Inscription on front ofbase beneath fountain:
Furnished by
E.T.Barnum, Detroit, Mich.
Erected By The Slatington
Hose Company No. 1 1909.
Slatington, Pennsylvania Fireman Fountain
A reman holds a young baby draped in a white sheet
in his proper left hand, and a bronze lantern with his
proper right hand. The reman wears a uniform, with
blue coat and pants with gold trim, and a red remans
hat. On the front there is a spout and horse trough
and, on the back, an operational water fountain.
Administered by the Borough of Slatington,
Located at 550 Main Street, Slatington, Pennsylvania.
Detail of pre-restoration Barnum
fountain with plaque at base.
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A Selection of pages from earlier Barnum Catalogs, 19th Century - 1919
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