First Appearance of Jenny Lind in America

by Currier & Ives

Jenny Lind was an opera singer from Stockholm, known as the "Swedish Nightengale". Somewhat the equivalent of a modern pop diva, her American tour in the early 1850's - promoted by P.T. Barnum - caused quite a sensation.

The caption of this 1850 lithograph reads:

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