Tag: Assasination of Lincoln

• No, The Other Brother

  Edwin Booth had these eyes: dark, large and full of sorrow.They tore people’s hearts out. It was said that no one had ever seen the young actor laugh. That well-earned sorrow matured into frequent drinking binges and sometimes shoddy performances as an actor, but unlike his insane and brilliant father who begot him illegitimately there…

  Adrienne Morris

  April 15, 2015

  Beautiful Images, Intoxication, Men, United States History

  19th century, 19th century actors, 19th century America, 19th Century Photography, Addiction, Assasination of Lincoln, child abuse, Edwin Booth