John Forney
Davis W Clark (1812-1871)
Washington Irving
Edwin Booth
J. Wilkes
William Cullen Bryant
William Cullen Bryant
Man reading newspaper
George W. Curtis (1824-1892)
T. D. Rice - "Jump Jim Crow"
Authors
R. W. Emerson
Bret Harte (1836-1902)
William Prescott (1726-1795)
Becomes the leading minstrel show actor with his racist portrayal of the slave “Jump Jim Crow.”
Salmon Chase
David Atwood
Novelist, lecturer, pro-emancipation.
Mark Twain
W.D. Howells
James Fennimore Cooper
Nathaniel Willis (1806-1867)
Photography Book
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.
Actors
Charles Dana
William Cullen Bryant
Salmon Chase
Prominent Men Outside Politics
Bennett J. Gordon
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.
William Cullen Bryant
Journalists/Newspaper
Henry David Thoreau
Nathaniel Hawthorne
John Greenleaf Whittier
James Harper (Harpers Weekly)
Ten baseball players circa 1907 on the “Au Fait” (at home) team.
Horace Greeley
Walter Whitman
Youngest Booth son, theater manager, role as Cassius with brothers in Julius Caesar, falsely imprisoned briefly after Lincoln assassinated.
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.
R. W. Emerson collage
Baseball Team
Junius Booth Junior
Benjamin Wood (1820-1900)
Edgar Allan Poe
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Junius Brutus Booth Senior
Fitz Green Halleck (1790-1867)