Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Object ID |
50-138A |
Title |
Advertisement for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show |
Object Name |
Broadside |
Scope & Content |
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show performed at Erastina, an amusement venue in the modern-day neighborhood of Mariner's Harbor. The venue was named for its founder Erastus Wiman, an entrepreneur who sought to make Staten Island a tourist destination. Wiman brought frontiersman, soldier, and showman William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody and his show to Staten Island in the summers of 1886 and 1888. The show dramatized life in the American West, featuring dozens of Indigenous performers, including Lakota Chief Sitting Bull, and women performers including sharpshooter Annie Oakley, shown in this advertisement. The show has been criticized for perpetuating an overly simplistic and erroneous narrative of "heroic" cowboys combatting "villainous" Native Americans that is still causing harm over a century later. |
Collection |
Print Collection |
Year Range from |
1886 |
Web Rights |
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/ |
Catalog type |
Archive |