Laura Keene
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Following her American stage debut in 1852, Keene performed in a number of cities and briefly managed theaters in Baltimore and San Francisco before settling in New York City, where she opened her own theater in 1856. Specializing in elaborately staged comic productions, Keene delighted audiences and succeeded in attracting to her company a host of celebrated actors. She assumed a role in each of her productions, achieving her greatest success as Florence Trenchard in the hugely popular comedy Our American Cousin. On the night of April 14, 1865, Keene was appearing in this play at Ford\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Theatre for an audience that included Abraham Lincoln when John Wilkes Booth fired the shot that claimed the president\u00e2\u0080\u0099s life."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Nacida en Londres, Inglaterra"}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Laura Keene se hizo famosa en Estados Unidos no solo como brillante estrella de la comedia sino como una de las primeras mujeres que manejaron com- pa\u00c3\u00b1\u00c3\u00adas teatrales importantes en el pa\u00c3\u00ads. Luego de su debut estadounidense en 1852, actu\u00c3\u00b3 en numerosas ciudades y administr\u00c3\u00b3 teatros en Baltimore y San Francisco antes de radicarse en Nueva York, donde fund\u00c3\u00b3 su propio teatro en 1856. Keene se especializ\u00c3\u00b3 en producciones c\u00c3\u00b3micas de elaborados montajes que deleitaban al p\u00c3\u00bablico, y logr\u00c3\u00b3 atraer a muchos artistas c\u00c3\u00a9lebres para que trabajaran con su compa\u00c3\u00b1\u00c3\u00ada. En cada producci\u00c3\u00b3n interpretaba un papel, y el m\u00c3\u00a1s exitoso fue el de Florence Trenchard en la popular\u00c3\u00adsima comedia Our American Cousin. En esa obra actuaba Keene la noche del 14 de abril de 1865 en el Teatro Ford cuando John Wilkes Booth hizo el disparo que seg\u00c3\u00b3 la vida del presidente Abraham Lincoln, quien se encontraba entre el p\u00c3\u00bablico."}, {"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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