Edwin Booth as Hamlet
Photograph
Edwin Booth as Hamlet
ca. 1880
Albumen silver print
Image: 13.8 x 10 cm
Mount: 16.5 x 10.8 cm
Museum accession
1981.4078.0004
Inscriptions recto (printed in orange): Sarony / 87 UNION SQR. N.Y.
verso (pencil): A. 76.
(blue ink): EDWiN [SIC] BOOTH / as Hamlet.
(applied newspaper article): Walter Hampden to Direct Players Club / New York, Sept, Sept. 27.---Walter / Hampden, actor-manager and wilde-/ ly known interpreter of Shakespear-/ ian roles, was elected yesterday to succeed the late John Drew as / president of the Players Club. / Hmapden [sic] becomes the fourth / president of the organization, his / predecessors having been Edwin / Booth, Joseph Jefferson and John / Drew. tenure of office is for life. / The chocie of Hampden was con-/sidered in theatrical circles to be / a compromise selection to break the / deadlock threatened by the candi-/ dacies of Otis Skinnner and francis / Wilson. [crossed out in black ink]
(black ink): 1927.
verso (pencil): A. 76.
(blue ink): EDWiN [SIC] BOOTH / as Hamlet.
(applied newspaper article): Walter Hampden to Direct Players Club / New York, Sept, Sept. 27.---Walter / Hampden, actor-manager and wilde-/ ly known interpreter of Shakespear-/ ian roles, was elected yesterday to succeed the late John Drew as / president of the Players Club. / Hmapden [sic] becomes the fourth / president of the organization, his / predecessors having been Edwin / Booth, Joseph Jefferson and John / Drew. tenure of office is for life. / The chocie of Hampden was con-/sidered in theatrical circles to be / a compromise selection to break the / deadlock threatened by the candi-/ dacies of Otis Skinnner and francis / Wilson. [crossed out in black ink]
(black ink): 1927.
