Austin and Stone's Dime Museum
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Austin and Stone's Dime Museum (ca.1880s-1900s) of Boston, Massachusetts, was an entertainment emporium in Scollay Square (no.4 Tremont Row), established by William Austin and Frank Stone.{{cite book |first=Andrea |last=Stulman Dennett |title=Weird and wonderful: the dime museum in America |location=New York |publisher=NYU Press |date=1997 |isbn=978-0-8147-1886-5}}Boston Almanac and Business Directory. 1885, 1887, 1889, 1894 It featured a freak show as well as dancing girls for entertainment. The freak show and other exhibits such as two-headed animals cost ten cents, while admission to the girlie show cost an additional dime. Performers included William S. Hutchings, the "lightning calculator."William S. Hutchings (1832-1911). New York Times, August 26, 1911 Comedian Fred Allen wrote about the Museum in his memoir, Much Ado About Me.
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Image:1889 Austin Stones BostonGlobe Feb3.png|Advertisement, "international assemblage of giants," 1889
Image:1893 Austin Stones BostonDailyGlobe 15Feb.png|Advertisement, "Prof. Welton's performing cats," 1893
Image:1894 Austin Stone BostonDailyGlobe 3January.png|Advertisement, 1894
Image:1896 PembertonSq Boston map byStadly BPL 12479 detail.png|Detail of 1896 map of Boston, showing Austin & Stone's Museum near Howard St.
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- [http://www.bambinomusical.com/Scollay/Maam.html Fred Allen's Memoirs of Scollay Square]
- Bostonian Society. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304200855/http://rfi.bostonhistory.org/boston/full/004294.jpg Photograph of 3-7 Tremont Row], ca. 1908-1912
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