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Thespian Abodements & Ira Aldridge
Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: June 1, 2013
Caption: Thespian Abodements & Ira Aldridge
Additional Description:
Thespian Faculty Abodements
Prithee, novice wayfarers!!
Travail yon inboard thoroughfare, to starboard
facades and porticos.

Ira Aldridge, American Negro, who a century ago was acclaimed throughout Europe, especially as Othello. Aldridge was officially invite by the King of Sweden to play in Stockholm, he received the order of Chevalier from the King of Prussia and was made a member of several European learned societies. He died in Poland in 1867 as was making plans for an American tour. — Harvard Library Theatre Collections
On the wall, inside Childers Hall

Submitted: July 6, 2015, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p314172
File Size: 2.031 Megabytes

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