10 thoughts on ““Awful disclosure of Treason, Conspiracy and Blood … Admission 25 cents””

1. That’s a lot of stuff for 25 cents. I might have gone just to see if what they said would be shown got shown. 50,000 Saints was that close estimate or a little bloated? I like the part of the eminent Artist who apparently could paint pictures fast enough to be done on the ‘spot’ and at the risk of their life.

2. “On the spot” struck me, too, Mex. I can’t help wondering if “Illuminated Paintings” means “images produced by means of light,” or photo-graphs.

3. Unless there were two artists painting and displaying panoramas of the Mississippi River in 1847, I have just found another article with detail about the artist and his work. I’ll have to write that up in the next day or two.

4. So I got curious as to how much that 25 cent admission fee would be worth now. I found some Inflation calculator online, and assuming that it is close to being accurate, 1 dollar in 1847 would be worth 27.62 now. So 25 cents in 1847 would be worth about 7 dollars now, or roughly the price of a Matinee Movie ticket.

5. The phrase “At the close of the endowments…” caught my eye. Were they reenacting temple ordinances as part of the exhibit, or is that just a coincidental word choice? Likewise, are they reenacting the attack at Carthage Jail, or just showing more “pictures?”

6. If we could only find that happy medium between lurid sensationalism and self-righteous apologetics. But then we wouldn’t even make a quarter.

7. I didn’t mean to cap my name! Auto-fill betrayed me.

8. I’m pretty sure this is all depicted on a panorama, all painted scenes and no actors in person.

9. Does this remind anyone else of C.C.A. Christensen’s traveling panorama?

10. Yup. Exactly

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