Edwin Booth.
- Description
- Portraits
- Creator
- Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893 (actor)
- Form
- black-and-white photographs
- Date
- unknown date during or after 1870
- Subject
- Performance
- Theater Biography
- Production and Direction
- Collection
- Furness Theatrical Image Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- Extent
- 16.5 x 10.5 cm.
- Notes
- Notes about Edwin Thomas Booth: A successful American tragic actor. Son of the actor Junius Brutus Booth and brother of the infamous John Wilkes Booth. Booth performed as Sir Giles Overreach in 1857 and acted Hamlet during the 1864-65 season for one hundred nights. Other successful Shakespearean roles included Othello, Romeo, and Macbeth. Booth arranged for the publication of acting editions of fifteen plays.
- Falk 949 Broadway N. Y.
- Copyright 1889 by B. J. Falk, N. Y. Verso ( handwritten): Incomplete, condensed biography of Edwin Booth; narrative cuts off at 1891.
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania: Furness, P/Bo200.10 S, Small Box
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Still Image
- Identifier
- (FURNESSTHEATER)furness_pbo200_10_s
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