Mrs. J. H. Allen
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H. Allen emerged to claim such roles. Performing exclusively under her married name (she was the wife of actor and theater manager J. H. Allen), Mrs. Allen made her New York City acting debut in 1855. Three years later, the New York Times hailed her as \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe most beautiful woman on the New -York stage\u00e2\u0080\u009d and noted her rapid rise as the leading actress at the city\u00e2\u0080\u0099s prin - cipal theater. In 1859, Allen portrayed Zoe, the tragic mixed-race heroine, in Dion Boucicault\u00e2\u0080\u0099s stirring new melodrama The Octoroon. When Laura Keene staged the wildly popular extravaganza The Seven Sisters, during the 1860\u00e2\u0080\u009361 season, Allen appeared as a flag-draped Columbia in one of \u00e2\u0080\u009ca series of tableaux bearing on the great tragedy of Secession, then rending the republic.\u00e2\u0080\u009d"}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Lugar de nacimiento desconocido"}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "A mediados de la d\u00c3\u00a9cada de 1850, cuando empez\u00c3\u00b3 a mermar la pr\u00c3\u00a1ctica de asignar los papeles de hero\u00c3\u00adna joven o \u00e2\u0080\u009cingenua\u00e2\u0080\u009d a actrices maduras, la encantadora Mrs. J. H. Allen reclam\u00c3\u00b3 para s\u00c3\u00ad dichos roles. Usando \u00c3\u00banicamente su apelativo de casada (su esposo era el actor y gerente teatral J. H. Allen), debut\u00c3\u00b3 en Nueva York en 1855. Tres a\u00c3\u00b1os despu\u00c3\u00a9s el New York Times la elogiaba como \u00e2\u0080\u009cla mujer m\u00c3\u00a1s hermosa en los escenarios de Nueva York\u00e2\u0080\u009d, comentando su r\u00c3\u00a1pido ascenso como actriz principal en el mejor teatro de la ciudad. En 1859 Allen interpret\u00c3\u00b3 a Zoe, la tr\u00c3\u00a1gica hero\u00c3\u00adna de raza mixta en el emotivo melodrama de Dion Boucicault, The Octoroon. Cuando Laura Keene mont\u00c3\u00b3 el popu- lar\u00c3\u00adsimo espect\u00c3\u00a1culo The Seven Sisters en la tempo- rada de 1860\u00e2\u0080\u009361, Allen apareci\u00c3\u00b3 como Columbia, envuelta en la bandera, en una escena \u00e2\u0080\u009csobre la gran tragedia de la Secesi\u00c3\u00b3n que entonces desga- rraba a la rep\u00c3\u00bablica\u00e2\u0080\u009d."}, {"label": "Collection Description", "content": "The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand Civil War-era portrait negatives from the Mathew Brady photography studio in New York City. The collection, which the National Portrait Gallery acquired in 1981, includes portraits of generals, politicians, diplomats, painters, and performers. It also contains depictions of \u00e2\u0080\u009cHuman Curiosities\u00e2\u0080\u009d at P. T. Barnum\u00e2\u0080\u0099s American Museum in New York City, that, although highly exploitative, help to document the historical representations of disability in the United States."}, {"label": "Collection Description", "content": "La Colecci\u00c3\u00b3n Frederick Hill Meserve contiene m\u00c3\u00a1s de 5,000 negativos de retratos de la \u00c3\u00a9poca de la Guerra Civil provenientes del estudio fotogr\u00c3\u00a1fico de Mathew Brady en la ciudad de Nueva York. Adquirida por la National Portrait Gallery en 1981, la colecci\u00c3\u00b3n incluye retratos de militares, pol\u00c3\u00adticos, diplom\u00c3\u00a1ticos y artistas. Tambi\u00c3\u00a9n contiene im\u00c3\u00a1genes de \u00e2\u0080\u009ccuriosidades humanas\u00e2\u0080\u009d exhibidas en el American Museum de P.T. Barnum en Nueva York. 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