*HARRIET BEECHER STOWE\'S UNCLE TOM\'S CABIN RARE 1897 PROGRAM HENRIETTA CROSMAN*
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A rare December 1897 program for Harriet Beecher Stowe\'s Uncle Tom\'s Cabin at the Park Theatre, Brooklyn with Henrietta Crosman, William Davidge and Harold Davidge, pasted to a contemporary album page. With a program for the young Lionel Barrymore in Cumberland \'61 to the reverse. Also featuring W J Ferguson, onstage at Ford\'s Theatre the night John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln and John E Kellerd, who fifteen years later would quietly break Edwin Booth\'s record for consecutive performances of Hamlet in New York. Overall dimensions ten and a quarter by seven and a half inches. Light wear else good.
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From Wikipedia:
Uncle Tom\'s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly,is ananti-slaverynovel byAmerican authorHarriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel \"helped lay the groundwork for theCivil War\", according to Will Kaufman.[3]
Stowe, aConnecticut-born teacher at theHartford Female Seminaryand an activeabolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering blackslavearound whom the stories of other characters revolve. Thesentimental noveldepicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings.[4][5][6]
Uncle Tom\'s Cabinwas the best-selling novel of the 19th century[7]and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible.[8]It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s.[9]In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold in the United States; one million copies were sold in Great Britain.[10]In 1855, three years after it was published, it was called \"the most popular novel of our day.\"[11]The impact attributed to the book is great, reinforced by a story that whenAbraham Lincolnmet Stowe at the start of theCivil War, Lincoln declared, \"So this is the little lady who started this great war.\"[12]The quote isapocryphal; it did not appear in print until 1896, and it has been argued that \"The long-term durability of Lincoln\'s greeting as an anecdote in literary studies and Stowe scholarship can perhaps be explained in part by the desire among many contemporary intellectuals ... to affirm the role of literature as an agent of social change.\"[13]
The book and the plays it inspired helped popularize a number ofstereotypesaboutblack people.[14]These include the affectionate, dark-skinned \"mammy\"; the \"pickaninny\" stereotype of black children; and the \"Uncle Tom\", or dutiful, long-suffering servant faithful to his white master or mistress. In recent years, the negative associations withUncle Tom\'s Cabinhave, to an extent, overshadowed the historical impact of the book as a \"vital antislavery tool.\"
The novel attempts to depict the harsh reality ofslavery. Due to the weak copyright laws at the time, a number of unauthorized plays based on the novel were staged for decades, many of them mocking the novel\'s strong characters and social message, and leading to the pejorative term \"Uncle Tom\".
Even thoughUncle Tom\'s Cabinwas the best-selling novel of the 19th century, far more Americans of that time saw the story in a stage play or musical than read the book.[1]Some of these shows were essentiallyminstrel showsthat utilized caricatures andstereotypesof black people, and thus inverting the intent of the novel. \"Tom shows\" were popular in the United States from the 1850s through the early 1900s.
Henrietta Crosman(September 2, 1861 – October 31, 1944) was an American stage and film actress. She was born inWheeling, West Virginiato George Crosman, a Civil War Major and Mary B. Wick, a niece of composerStephen Foster.
Theatrical career
Her grandfather was a Civial War General. Crosman was born the year the Civil War started and moved all over the US from post to post with her army father, and so was educated in many places. On leaving school she decided to become an actress. She got her start in 1883 at the old Windsor Theatre, New York with the assistance of the long-time theatre managerJohn A. Ellsler. Her debut role was as Lilly inBartley Campbell\'sThe White Slave.
She later toured the country with Robert L. Downing in classic parts. In 1889 she appeared in her first Shakespeare play,As You Like ItatAugustin Daly\'s theater. During the course of the early 1890s she was managed byDaniel Frohmanand appeared in hisstock company. From 1892-94 her career was managed by Daniel\'s brother,Charles Frohman. For a short period during 1891, and in between Frohman brothers, she was under the aegis ofA. M. Palmer.
By 1900 Crosman was a star and appeared for the first time as such inMistress Nellkeeping in line with the sort of costume adventures that were becoming her forte. In 1902, she appeared in the productions of \"Joan of the Shoals\", \"As You Like It\" and \"The Sword of the King\". In 1903, she premiered another exceptional play \"Sweet Kitty Bellairs\". Several of these plays would turn up as films in the silent era played by younger actresses.
In 1911, she and her company staged 60 performances of Catherine Chisholm Cushing\'s comedy,The Real Thing, at theMaxine Elliott Theatrein New York, before taking the show on the road. In early July 1912, Crosman and company were inRegina, Saskatchewanfollowing theRegina Cyclone, and staged a benefit performance ofThe Real Thingfor the victims.[5]
Now in her forties, Crosman was starting to move away from the strenuous sword carrying, heavy costume adventures that she was popular in. Much of the remainder of her theatrical career would consist of drawing room comedies and farces, a type of playing that was less hectic for an ageing actress. However she would return to revivals of Shakespeare i.e.The Merry Wives of Windsorand inRichard Brinsley Sheridan\'sThe Rivals.
*HARRIET BEECHER STOWE\'S UNCLE TOM\'S CABIN RARE 1897 PROGRAM HENRIETTA CROSMAN* :
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