David Atwood
Walter Whitman
Washington Irving
Edwin Booth
Actors
Junius Brutus Booth Senior
John Greenleaf Whittier
William Cullen Bryant
Journalists/Newspaper
Nathaniel Willis (1806-1867)
J. Wilkes
Bret Harte (1836-1902)
Fitz Green Halleck (1790-1867)
Benjamin Wood (1820-1900)
Henry David Thoreau
Mark Twain
William Prescott (1726-1795)
Photography Book
William Cullen Bryant
Bennett J. Gordon
Horace Greeley
Salmon Chase
John Forney
Becomes the leading minstrel show actor with his racist portrayal of the slave “Jump Jim Crow.”
Poet, “the American Byron,” member of Knickerbocker Group (Cooper, Irving, Bryant), secretary to JJ Astor and given annuity at his death, satirist, Lincoln reads him.
Authors
Salmon Chase
Davis W Clark (1812-1871)
Born in Maine, Yale, sister is Fanny Fern, follows father into journalism, fame & wealth as foreign correspondent, also poetry and theater, employs the ex-slave Harriet Jacobs who accuses him of being pro-slavery in her memoirs, runs many publications in NYC, Home Journal, circle includes Poe, Longworth, Thackeray, Dickens, others.
R. W. Emerson collage
Edgar Allan Poe
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
W.D. Howells
Nathaniel Hawthorne
William Cullen Bryant
R. W. Emerson
Prominent Men Outside Politics
Baseball Team
Man reading newspaper
James Fennimore Cooper
Youngest Booth son, theater manager, role as Cassius with brothers in Julius Caesar, falsely imprisoned briefly after Lincoln assassinated.
Charles Dana
William Cullen Bryant
James Harper (Harpers Weekly)
Novelist, lecturer, pro-emancipation.
Junius Booth Junior
After rivaling Edmund Keane on the London stage, he comes to America in 1821 and wins acclaim as Richard III. Despite alcoholism and a violent temper, he deliver over 3,000 performances. His three sons follow him on stage, with Edwin the leading tragedian of the time and John Wilkes reviled as Lincoln’s assassin.
George W. Curtis (1824-1892)
T. D. Rice - "Jump Jim Crow"
Ten baseball players circa 1907 on the “Au Fait” (at home) team.