A HISTORY OF THE NEW YORK STAGE, 1903

A HISTORY OF THE NEW YORK STAGE From the First Performance in 1732 to 1901 By T. ALLSTON BROWN In Three Volumes Vol. I NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1903 SCUDDER’S Museum was in an old two-story building, once the Almshouse of the city. It was of brick, painted yellow, with wooden portico, and was situated […]

John Wilkes Booth saw colleague Barney Williams as “trash”

The assassin himself was represented by a three-page ALS, written November 23, 1861 to Joseph H. Simonds. “I know you will forgive me, this long delay in answering your letters; if you knew better you would not wonder at it, as I avail myself of any excuse to get rid of writing, no matter how […]

Lincoln promised Barney Williams to appoint his nephew to the Naval Academy

Lincoln, Abraham. Autograph letter signed as President, 1p, 7 x 5 in., Executive Mansion, Washington, 29 Sept. 1864. To “Hon. Sec. of the Navy” [Gideon Welles] about a promise Lincoln had “almost, if not quite” made to place a nephew of a friend into the Naval Academy: “About a year & half ago I almost, if […]

An older Maria Pray Williams, CDV

Maria Pray Williams, CDV

I do not own yet. Dated 1861. CDV Maria Pray Williams, New York born dancer and actress who married Irish actor Barney Williams (born Bernard Flaherty). They became a successful acting couple who traveled abroad and to San Francisco performing many popular comedic plays. They also performed for the troops during the Civil War. Maria Pray […]

CDV Barney Williams, full front facing

I do not own this image yet. CDV of Barney Williams (born Bernard Flaherty) Irish born comic actor who performed for the troops during Civil War. Backstamp McAllister & Brother 723 Chestnut Street Philadelphia. There is a pencil inscripton on reverse ‘Barney. Williams’. Titled on front C.D Fredericks & Co., New York, 1861.