On December 15, 1857, 42 llamas arrived in New York City on the Panama Railroad Company’s brig E. Drummond under the command of Captain Crippen Chapman (try saying that fast). The llamas (they were probably alpacas, but the New York press called them llamas) were owned by French naturalist Eugene Roehn and consigned to James I. Fisher & Son of Baltimore.
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1893: The Kangaroo That Kicked and Boxed at Koster and Bial’s Music Hall
Posted: 14th April 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Animal AttractionsTags: Animal Tales, Boxing Kangaroo, Frank C. Bostock, New York History, The Corner, Vitascope
Frank the boxing kangaroo was a headliner at Koster & Bial’s Music Hall, a vaudeville theater and beer garden at the northwest corner of 23rd Street and 6th Avenue.
