New Photo of Laura Keene

[BettyO]

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

[LincolnMan]

Never saw that one! Look at that dress!

[L Verge]

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

[Tom Bogar]

(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.

[L Verge]

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

[Gene C]

When do you think the photo was taken?

[Hess1865]

(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.

[BettyO]

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....

[Hess1865]

I think you're right about that Betty

[Jim Garrett]

(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....

Sleeves and front look a bit different.

[Tom Bogar]

(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.

[L Verge]

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

[Tom Bogar]

(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-...assination

[Hess1865]

Can't wait to get it!!`

[LincolnMan]

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.