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By Glenda Armand Illustrated by Floyd Cooper
Ira Aldridge dreamed of being on stage one day performing the great works of William Shakespeare. He spent every chance he got at the local theaters, memorizing each actor’s lines for all of Shakespeare’s plays. Ira just knew he could be a great Shakespearean actor if only given the chance. But in the early 1800s, only white actors were allowed to perform Shakespeare. Ira’s only option was to perform musical numbers at the all-black theater in New York city. Despite being discouraged by his teacher and father, Ira determinedly pursued his dream and set off to England, the land of Shakespeare. There, Ira honed his acting skills and eventually performed at the acclaimed Theatre Royal Haymarket. Through perseverance and determination, Ira became one of the most celebrated Shakespearean actors throughout Europe.
Ira’s Shakespeare Dream at Lee & Low books: https://www.leeandlow.com/books/2885
[Ira Aldridge; portrait by William Mulready c. 1840]
MedievalPoC posts about Ira Aldridge, Shakespearean Actor in Victorian London
9 men on a giant tricycle, Boston, 1898
Ancient Pyramids of Giza, Egypt, ca. 1860-80s
Music in Victorian Era – Vintage pictures of women playing musical instruments in the 1800s
30 rare photos of everyday life in old Japan in late 19th century
142 years ago on November 14, 1873, Adolph Coors, along with Denver businessman Jacob Shueler, recorded a deed of purchase for an abandoned tannery in Golden, Colorado. Within months the building would become home to the Golden Brewery, thus beginning a new chapter in beer brewing history.
Coors was born in Germany in 1847 and by the age of 15 was already an apprentice in a local brewery. Immigrating to the United States at the age of 21, Coors ventured west to Colorado where he worked as a gardener as well as the manager of a bottling plant, saving his money in the hopes of opening his own brewery. Two years after the opening of the Golden Brewery, Coors bought out Shueler and renamed his venture the Coors Golden Brewery. It was only a few years after this point when Adolph Coors found himself in the United States Circuit Court for the District of Colorado, and so is now today found in Record Group 21 Records of District Courts of the United States – Civil Case Files (NAID 721171).
In 1889 Coors had contracted with the Beck and Pauli Lithography Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin for 5,000,000 bottle labels and 500,000 shipping labels, as well as letterhead, postcards, and advertising showcards discussed in part within these two handwritten letters found in the case file – 3165 Beck and Pauli v. Adolph Coors (NAID 22740465).
The above letter from December, 1889 also references Coors’ displeasure in how the “rock” is depicted in the trademark. The rock in question is Castle Rock, a prominent feature on South Table Mountain in Golden, Colorado and is seen on this letterhead for Golden Brewery from 1889 (NAID 22740512).
Its inclusion in the Coors’ trademark image makes further sense when one sees a photograph of just how prominent the peak is in relation to the brewery. In this close-up of a 1967 Bureau of Reclamation aerial photograph, from the file 154/001-005 Scenic Cities General GP (NAID 23811891), one sees Castle Rock to the right of the Coors plant.
After settling on the design, by March of 1890 the company had shipped nearly a quarter of the entire order and with that the problem began. Coors felt that delivery of the order should have been staggered and he was receiving much more of everything than he needed. This bill (NAID 22740516) would be the spark that would ignite the case; Coors refused to pay it.
For more records from brewing history don’t miss the exhibit: Spirited Republic: Alcohol in American History, now at the National Archives Museum in Washington, DC, and check out the free Spirited Republic eBook.
Lister’s antiseptic operating technique,1883
Hello! The google book of Les orientalistes de l'école italienne merely suggests it might also be called "Le retour de la foire" (Coming back from the fair). Hope it helps the person looking for it.
Someone also sent:
Hi, I managed to track down a bit more info about the Cesare Maccari painting, including the full image. It’s called Retour de la foire (Return from the Fair) and it’s held in a private collection. You can see the full image at
http://tinyurl.com/plo73j6
which is in a different edition of the Juler book. The copyright info for the painting was on the back cover of the Voltaire book.— jeffinated
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (January 1, 1797 - April 14, 1861)
Backwards man, 1880s (via)
July 13, 1863: The New York City draft riots begin.
The United States employed a national conscription system for the first time during the American Civil War via the Enrollment Act of 1863, which established a quota of troops from each congressional district. Commutation was possible - if a draftee could afford to pay $300. Already relations between the diverse groups populating New York City at the time were tense because of job competition, but particularly between poor white laborers and black workers. Now there was the fact that the affluent could pay their way out of the army, and the fact that many fresh, friendless immigrants had been wrangled by political machines into becoming citizens and voting without realizing that this made them eligible to be drafted (whereas black non-citizens were not). Anger over the draft and problems surrounding it and the war as a whole erupted in a four-day riot that ended with over a hundred dead.
Many of the rioters were Irish workers who competed with black workers for the same low wage jobs and, with the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation in early 1863, feared further competition as freed slaves headed north, searching for work. Because of these deep-rooted concerns, anger initially directed at the government and conscription soon found a new target/scapegoat: the city’s free black population. On the first day of rioting, the Colored Orphan Asylum was looted and then burned to the ground; black homes and businesses were destroyed, along with buildings affiliated with Republicans and abolitionists. Interracial couples were also attacked, and over a hundred people were killed by furious mobs - one black man was attacked by several hundred people at once, then strung up high and set on fire. At this time, few soldiers were stationed in New York, having been sent south to repel invading Confederate forces. State militias were eventually called in to quell the violence, and it was quelled, but property damage reached several million dollars, and African-Americans fled the city or relocated out of their mixed race neighborhoods.
Bird girls of Szegeden, Hungary, 1880s (via Vintage Photo)
Nate Salsbury in the 1880s, founder and manager of Salsbury’s Troubadours, a musical comedy troupe that performed in the 1870s-80s. Salsbury later became co-owner of the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show (via Vintage Photo)
