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[Edwin Booth as Iago in Othello, let us be conjunct"]" – Historic Reproduction

[Edwin Booth as Iago in Othello, let us be conjunct"]", c1870. — historic photograph
[Edwin Booth as Iago in Othello, let us be conjunct"]", c1870.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures [Edwin Booth as Iago in Othello, let us be conjunct"]" in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Edwin Booth is shown here in costume as Iago, the scheming ensign of Shakespeare's *Othello*, a role he played often on the American stage. The portrait is credited to J. Gurney, the New York photographer whose studio made many theatrical likenesses of actors in the decades after the Civil War. Pictures like this were sold as cabinet cards and were popular with theatergoers who wanted a keepsake of a favorite performer. The quoted line on the caption card points to the play's themes of manipulation and revenge. The record notes that its data comes from an older caption card and has not been verified, so the date of about 1870 is an estimate.

Created / publishedc1870.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto copyrighted by J. Gurney. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,196 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-119017

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