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New Photo of Laura Keene - BettyO - 04-19-2013 07:34 PM

Found this photo of Laura Keene - have never seen this one before....Anyone else?

It's in the collection of the Virginia Historical Society -

http://www.vahistorical.org/arvfind/snedenil1.htm



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RE: New Photo of Laura Keene - LincolnMan - 04-19-2013 07:44 PM

Never saw that one! Look at that dress!


RE: New Photo of Laura Keene - L Verge - 04-19-2013 08:20 PM

I'm trying to remember who wrote the book on Laura Keene. Was it Ben Graf Henneke?


RE: New Photo of Laura Keene - Tom Bogar - 04-19-2013 08:22 PM

(04-19-2013 08:20 PM)L Verge Wrote:  I'm trying to remember who wrote the book on Laura Keene. Was it Ben Graf Henneke?

Yes.


RE: New Photo of Laura Keene - L Verge - 04-19-2013 08:36 PM

When your book comes out, Tom, will this photo be in it?


RE: New Photo of Laura Keene - Gene C - 04-19-2013 09:19 PM

When do you think the photo was taken?


RE: New Photo of Laura Keene - Hess1865 - 04-19-2013 10:27 PM

(04-19-2013 09:19 PM)Gene C Wrote:  When do you think the photo was taken?

ISeeing I've never seen this one before, I say it was taken in her younger years.


RE: New Photo of Laura Keene - BettyO - 04-20-2013 08:58 AM

Judging from the dress, I say that the photo was dated sometime in the mid to early 1850s....

And - if one looks at the cover of the Laura Keene Schottisch dated 1856 - it looks like she's wearing the same dress on the cover....


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RE: New Photo of Laura Keene - Hess1865 - 04-20-2013 09:32 AM

I think you're right about that Betty


RE: New Photo of Laura Keene - Jim Garrett - 04-20-2013 12:06 PM

(04-20-2013 08:58 AM)BettyO Wrote:  Judging from the dress, I say that the photo was dated sometime in the mid to early 1850s....

And - if one looks at the cover of the Laura Keene Schottisch dated 1856 - it looks like she's wearing the same dress on the cover....


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Sleeves and front look a bit different.


RE: New Photo of Laura Keene - Tom Bogar - 04-20-2013 01:28 PM

(04-19-2013 08:36 PM)L Verge Wrote:  When your book comes out, Tom, will this photo be in it?

No, I'm going with the one I found at Harvard Theatre Collection, that I showed at the conference, in which she's wearing her Act III dress from Our American Cousin.


RE: New Photo of Laura Keene - L Verge - 04-20-2013 05:32 PM

Very appropriate choice. Any word yet on the release date?


RE: New Photo of Laura Keene - Tom Bogar - 04-20-2013 10:34 PM

(04-20-2013 05:32 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Very appropriate choice. Any word yet on the release date?

It's set for November 4: http://www.amazon.com/Backstage-Lincoln-Assassination-Tragedy-Theatre/dp/1621570835/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1363232201&sr=1-1&keywords=backstage+at+the+lincoln+assassination


RE: New Photo of Laura Keene - Hess1865 - 04-21-2013 11:22 AM

Can't wait to get it!!`


RE: New Photo of Laura Keene - LincolnMan - 04-21-2013 12:41 PM

She was quite attractive. Sad, that except for her part in the Lincoln assassination story, no one would be likely to know her name today.