Scrapbook of material relating to Junius Brutus Booth [manuscript], 1815-1876.

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Scrapbook of material relating to Junius Brutus Booth [manuscript], 1815-1876.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/439023122

Includes playbills, photographs, newspaper cuttings, notes of costumes and letters to Junius Brutus Booth's father, Richard Booth.

1 v. : ill., photographs

Folger Shakespeare Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7535694

Folger Shakespeare Library

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Booth, Richard, 1762 or 1763-1839

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Booth, Junius Brutus, 1796-1852

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Junius Brutus Booth (1 May 1796 – 30 November 1852) was a 19th century English stage actor. He was the father of actor John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. His other children included Edwin Booth, the foremost tragedian of the mid-to-late 19th century, Junius Brutus Booth Jr., an actor and theatre manager, and Asia Booth Clarke, a poet and writer. Booth was born in St. Pancras, London, Great Britain, the son of Richard Booth, a lawyer and avid supporter of the Am...