The Carrington Illustrated Entertainment and Popular Matinees. Washington and His Successors. The Popular Illustrated Historic Novelty, “America”
Np, nd, but likely 1892. 7 x 9 inches, [4] pp, front wrapper illustrated with a portrait of George Washington in a “frame” composed of small portraits of all the succeeding Presidents through Benjamin Harrison. Illustration design credited to E.M. Beckerman and copyrighted by the Nonpareil Publishing Co., both of Chicago. Old folding creases, a few chips and short tears, “Monday Evening” in pencil on front wrapper. Good. Not recorded in OCLC.
According to a February 1892 notice in the Logansport [Indiana] Reporter, A.R. Carrington offered a series of six “Illustrated Entertainments,” in which he presented “more than 300 colored scenes and crayon sketches thrown upon canvas by a powerful stereo-sciopticon” (i.e., magic lantern). This particular program offered a whirlwind illustrated survey of the first hundred years of American history, covering “literary, social, and religious advancements; commercial, financial and political uses and abuses; the labor and race problems; the educational and common school question, and a general summary of the most stirring and thrilling events in the nation’s history.” This was accompanied by stirring patriotic speeches by Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Webster, Andrew Jackson, Grover Cleveland, James Garfield, Charles Sumner, Horace Greeley, James G. Blaine, and Benjamin Harrison. We found little information about A.R. Carrington himself, but someone of that name was billed as a “champion drum soloist” in the 1870s, and appeared on the New York Vaudeville scene in the first decade of the twentieth century.
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