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Title
Temple
of
Amusement
and
Columbia
docked
at
Harmar
Subject
Cultural Ohio -- Popular Culture
Showboats
Ohio River
Traveling shows
Theater--Ohio
Time Period
1900s
Place
Harmar (Ohio)
Washington County (Ohio)
Description
Eisenbarth's
Temple
of
Amusement
and
Columbia
barge
in
Harmar
,
Ohio
at a
landing
by a
railroad
bridge
near
the
mouth
of the
Muskingum
River
. The
Ben
Hur
is
tied
next
to
Columbia
.
Ellsworth
Eugene
Eisenbarth
was
born
October
22
,
1864
, in
Ironton
,
Ohio
. The
family
later
moved
to
Wetzel
County
,
West
Virginia
. By
1889
,
Eisenbarth
was
traveling
the
mid-Atlantic
states
in "The
Oregon
Indian
Medicine
Show
"
which
featured
such
entertainment
as
real
cowboys
and
“Indians.”
He
next
bought
a
floating
store
,
which
he
refitted
as a
showboat
and
christened
"The
Eisenbarth
Wild
West
&
Floating
Opera.
" The
endeavor
lasted
from
1891
to
1895
. By the
late
1890s
,
Eisenbarth
and his
wife
Julia
had
founded
"The
Eisenbarth
&
Henderson
Mammoth
and
Combined
Uncle
Tom’s
Cabin
Company
"
complete
with
calliope
,
band
and
orchestra
,
which
also
traveled
throughout
the
middle
states
by
rail
. In
February
of
1900
,
E.E
. and
Julia
converted
a
glass
barge
named
the
E.V
.
Poke
No
.
2
into "The
Eisenbarth-Henderson
Floating
Date of Original
1906
Collection
Eisenbarth
Family
Papers
Source
MSS
930
AV
;
Negative
Envelope
,
Negative
11
Format
Picture
;
Photographic
Negative
(Black
and
White)
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
Rights
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
AL07573.tif
Image Height
2920
Image Width
5041
File Size
44175044 Bytes
Date created
2011-08-10
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