Days Gone By

J. Gurney & Son, Edwin Booth as William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, ca. 1870.

J. Gurney & Son, Edwin Booth as Iago in Shakespeare’s Othello, ca. 1870.

Source: Library of Congress

M. P. Rice, Walt Whitman and Peter Doyle, ca. 1869.

Source: Ohio Wesleyan University, Bayley Collection

Mathew Brady, Junius Brutus Booth, ca. 1850.

Source: Library of Congress

Left to right: John Wilkes Booth, Edwin Booth and Junius Booth, Jr. in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caeser” at the Winter Garden Theatre, New York City, 1864.

Source: McClellan Collection, Brown University

Actor Jose Ferrer in costume at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ca. 1955.

Source: City of Toronto Archives

James Lafayette, Ethiopian General & Governor of Harar, Ras Makonnen, on a visit to England for the Coronation of King Edward VII, 12 August 1902.

Margaret Gorman, the first Miss America, 1921.

Source: Library of Congress

Rob Kaminer, Mary Leona Gage, 13 April 1965.

Bass Strait, September 4, 1941. HMAS Sydney in the foreground escorting convoy US.12A, comprising the Queen Mary (right) and Queen Elizabeth, past Wilson’s Promontory off the coast of Victoria, Australia.