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

Never saw that one! Look at that dress!

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

(04-19-2013 09:20 PM)L Verge Wrote:  I'm trying to remember who wrote the book on Laura Keene. Was it Ben Graf Henneke?

Yes.

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

When do you think the photo was taken?

(04-19-2013 10:19 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.

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....

I think you're right about that Betty

(04-20-2013 09:58 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....

Sleeves and front look a bit different.

(04-19-2013 09:36 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.

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

(04-20-2013 06:32 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-...assination

Can't wait to get it!!`

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.