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Historical Tourism (with thanks to Sarah Vowell and Richard Holmes) City Maps
Boston Theatre Old Landmarks of Boston Boston Railway stations
Buffalo walking tour Great architecture, Olmstead parks and the Historical Society building from the Pan American Exposition of 1901 -- reminds me of the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. My thanks to Ellen and George
Chicago Cincinnati of John Nickinson and EJ Phillips I haven't really been to Cincinnati, only the airport (which is in Kentucky). But I did find some nice photographic histories in the airport bookstore.
Los Angeles Middletown, NY New Orleans New York and John Nickinson Other letters and the play Burnt Over Manhattan Walking tours
Philadelphia San Francisco Toronto Washington DC
I've been experimenting with Google Maps as they seem incredibly well suited to getting maps of neighborhoods EJ Phillips lived and/or worked in. The web has become increasingly valuable for history and historical accounts over the past 10-15 years. It took me awhile to realize that the Willard and Palmer House Hotels were not the buildings EJ Phillips had stayed at -- though they are on the same sites. New York, with a wealth of addresses and years of letters has been the most tractable (and compact) place to investigate. I've just taken photographs of Boston and hope to get some in Philadelphia in June 2011.
Railway
stations
Baltimore
Boston Chicago
Cincinnati Denver Los Angeles New York Ogden, Utah
Philadelphia Providence Toronto
Washington DC
Western railroad trip planned 2012
I had a wonderful time visiting cousin Sue
Spencer in Toronto in June 2005, and getting a sense of John Nickinson's -- and
EJ Phillips' time there. Thomas Phillips [my generation's
great-great-great grandfather] helped build the
Rideau Ottawa
Canal, "arguably the most scenic waterway in North America, links the
lakes and rivers between Ottawa and Kingston, and is the oldest continuously
operated canal in North America. The locks are operated today much as they were
when first opened in 1832." [Sounds like a worthwhile trip someday.]
EJ Phillips grew up in Hamilton and her parents are buried there. Hamilton, Canada city and cemetery tours Hamilton postcards Brief history of the postcard in Canada EJ Phillips first stage appearances
New pictures of EJ Phillips A.R. Miller's Photographic Gallery,
Indianapolis No 45 E. Washington St. [about 1860]
John Nickinson Dewey's Gallery 102 W. Fifth St., bet. Vine & Race,
Cincinnati [1862]
more on Cincinnati and the Nickinsons
new [to us]
John Nickinson obituary
another new
[to us] John Nickinson photograph
Historical Tourism
and biographies
Allister Hardiman e-mailed
from Australia about a photograph of "Auntie"
Christine Zavistowski
The Nickinsons and the
1870
census.
EJ Phillips' professional photographs
revised
John Nickinson
account New photograph of
John
Nickinson
Did John Nickinson
ever meet Edgar Allan Poe?
Did they drink on this
street in New York?
John Nickinson
compared (favorably) with Charles Dickens
Importance of Nickinson's military career for his theatrical work
Toronto revised
and expanded after visiting cousin
Sue Spencer
in June 2005 walking
tour
Royal Lyceum Theatre site today
Lola Montez
and John Nickinson
EJ Phillips
enters the picture
New pictures of
Charlotte
Nickinson Morrison and family,
Eliza Nickinson
Peters,
Charles Peters,
Virginia
Nickinson Marlowe
Owen Marlowe
Many thanks to Toronto theater historian Mary Shortt.
1858 Royal Lyceum playbill The great Nautical Drama of the SEA! Lost and Saved! STORM AT SEA! AND THE RESCUE! John Nickinson may have been a soldier, but grandson Ted Nickinson went to Annapolis and wound up living in Pensacola, a Navy town, as did his parents.
Another Nickinson production of Uncle Tom -- this time the play is by Harriet
Beecher Stowe.
In six acts and twelve tableaux, Davies as Uncle Tom, Miles as George Harris
(the fugitive), Nickinson as Phineas Fletcher, Miss Kimberly as Eliza, Miss
Blanche as Eva, Miss Phillips as Cassey and Emily L. Miles as Topsy (the girl
that never was born).
No date,
no place identifiable "To-morrow evening benefit of J. Nickinson, when a great
will be offered. Lady and Gent, front seats 70 cents; single gent, 35 cents
other parts of the house admission will be 25 cents. Phineas Fletcher was the
Quaker who helped slaves escape. Cassey was a slave belonging to Simon Legree.
more on Uncle Tom's
Cabin
Bibliography
Gilder, Rosamond, Enter the Actress: The First Women in the Theater, NY:
Theatre Arts Books, 1960
Lerner, Gerda, The Majority Finds its Past: Placing Women in History: NY Oxford University Press,
1981
Last updated April 3, 2011
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