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September Poems

One of my favorite September poems is a story by Quaker poet, John Greenleaf Whittier. Civil War envelope, between 1861 – 1864, Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Library of Congress. Barbara Frietchie by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) Up from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn, The clustered spires of Frederick stand Green-walled by the hills…

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endless list of favorites:

BARBARA FRIETCHIE (John Greenleaf Whittier)

Bravest of all in Frederick town, she took up the flag the men hauled down; in her attic window the staff she set, to show that one heart was loyal yet.

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Mary Mallory: Hollywood Heights -- ‘Barbara Frietchie’

Mary Mallory: Hollywood Heights — ‘Barbara Frietchie’

Photo: Filming “Barbara Frietchie.” Courtesy of Mary Mallory/Collections of the Margaret Herrick Library. Note: This is an encore post from 2012. Thomas Ince, sadly more recognized today for his tragic, early death than for the fine films he created, was one of Hollywood’s most successful early film producers. Building his first studio in 1912 at what is now the intersection of Pacific Coast…

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Clyde Fitch (May 2, 1865 – September 4, 1909)

American dramatist, the most popular writer for the Broadway stage of his time (c. 1890–1909). (Wikipedia)

From our stacks: 1.-2. Frontispiece “Miss Julia Marlowe as “Barbara Frietchie From a Pastel by Everett Shinn.” and illustration “To Clyde Fitch Julia Marlowe 1900 - your grateful “Barbara” Photo by Byron” from Barbara Frietchie. The Frederick Girl. A Play in Four Acts By Clyde Fitch. New York City: Life Publishing Company, 1900.  3. Frontispiece “Clyde Fitch In His Study, East Fortieth Street, New York City. Photo by Byron N.Y.” from Plays by Clyde Fitch in Four Volumes. Volume Three. Edited by Montrose J. Moses and Virginia Gerson. Memorial Edition. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1920.  4. Frontispiece “Clyde Fitch From the Portrait by William M. Chase at Amherst College” from Plays by Clyde Fitch in Four Volumes. Volume One. Edited, with an introduction by Montrose J. Moses and Virginia Gerson. Memorial Edition. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1920.

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Barbara Frietchie, Jacob Byerly and Son, c. 1862 (printed c. 1863/1864), Smithsonian: National Portrait Gallery

Size: Image: 6.1 x 5 cm (2 3/8 x 1 15/16") Medium: Albumen silver print

https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2001.36

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Barbara Stanwyck (born Ruby Catherine Stevens; July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress, model and dancer. A stage, film and television star, she was known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional for her strong, realistic screen presence. A favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang and Frank Capra, she made 85 films in 38 years before turning to television.

Stanwyck got her start on the stage in the chorus as a Ziegfeld girl in 1923 at age 16 and within a few years was acting in plays. She was then cast in her first lead role in Burlesque (1927), becoming a Broadway star. Soon after that, Stanwyck obtained film roles and got her major break when Frank Capra chose her for his romantic drama Ladies of Leisure (1930), which led to additional lead roles.

In 1937 she had the title role in Stella Dallas and received her first Academy Award nomination for best actress. In 1941 she starred in two successful screwball comedies: Ball of Fire with Gary Cooper, and The Lady Eve with Henry Fonda. She received her second Academy Award nomination for Ball of Fire, and in recent decades The Lady Eve has come to be regarded as a romantic comedy classic with Stanwyck's performance called one of the best in American comedy.

By 1944, Stanwyck had become the highest-paid woman in the United States. She starred alongside Fred MacMurray in the seminal film noir Double Indemnity (1944), playing the smoldering wife who persuades MacMurray's insurance salesman to kill her husband. Described as one of the ultimate portrayals of villainy, it is widely thought that Stanwyck should have won the Academy Award for Best Actress rather than being just nominated. She received another Oscar nomination for her lead performance as an invalid wife overhearing her own murder plot in the thriller film noir, Sorry, Wrong Number (1948). After she moved into television in the 1960s, she won three Emmy Awards – for The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1961), the western series The Big Valley (1966), and miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983).

She received an Honorary Oscar in 1982, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1986 and was the recipient of several other honorary lifetime awards. She was ranked as the 11th greatest female star of classic American cinema by the American Film Institute. An orphan at the age of four, and partially raised in foster homes, she always worked; one of her directors, Jacques Tourneur, said of Stanwyck, "She only lives for two things, and both of them are work."

Barbara Stanwyck was born Ruby Catherine Stevens on July 16, 1907, in Brooklyn, New York. She was the fifth – and youngest – child of Catherine Ann (née McPhee) (1870-1911) and Byron E. Stevens (1872-1919), working-class parents. Her father, of English descent, was a native of Lanesville, Massachusetts, and her mother, of Scottish descent, was an immigrant from Sydney, Nova Scotia. When Ruby was four, her mother died of complications from a miscarriage after she was knocked off a moving streetcar by a drunk. Two weeks after the funeral, her father joined a work crew digging the Panama Canal and was never seen again by his family. Ruby and her older brother, Malcolm Byron (later nicknamed "By") Stevens, were raised by their eldest sister Laura Mildred, (later Mildred Smith) (1886–1931), who died of a heart attack at age 45. When Mildred got a job as a showgirl, Ruby and Byron were placed in a series of foster homes (as many as four in a year), from which young Ruby often ran away.

"I knew that after fourteen I'd have to earn my own living, but I was willing to do that ... I've always been a little sorry for pampered people, and of course, they're 'very' sorry for me."

Ruby toured with Mildred during the summers of 1916 and 1917, and practiced her sister's routines backstage. Watching the movies of Pearl White, whom Ruby idolized, also influenced her drive to be a performer. At the age of 14, she dropped out of school, taking a package wrapping job at a Brooklyn department store. Ruby never attended high school, "although early biographical thumbnail sketches had her attending Brooklyn's famous Erasmus Hall High School."

Soon afterward, she took a filing job at the Brooklyn telephone office for $14 a week, which allowed her to become financially independent. She disliked the job; her real goal was to enter show business, even as her sister Mildred discouraged the idea. She then took a job cutting dress patterns for Vogue magazine, but customers complained about her work and she was fired. Ruby's next job was as a typist for the Jerome H. Remick Music Company; work she reportedly enjoyed, however her continuing ambition was in show business, and her sister finally gave up trying to dissuade her.

In 1923, a few months before her 16th birthday, Ruby auditioned for a place in the chorus at the Strand Roof, a nightclub over the Strand Theatre in Times Square. A few months later, she obtained a job as a dancer in the 1922 and 1923 seasons of the Ziegfeld Follies, dancing at the New Amsterdam Theater. "I just wanted to survive and eat and have a nice coat", Stanwyck said. For the next several years, she worked as a chorus girl, performing from midnight to seven a.m. at nightclubs owned by Texas Guinan. She also occasionally served as a dance instructor at a speakeasy for gays and lesbians owned by Guinan. One of her good friends during those years was pianist Oscar Levant, who described her as being "wary of sophisticates and phonies."

Billy LaHiff, who owned a popular pub frequented by showpeople, introduced Ruby in 1926 to impresario Willard Mack. Mack was casting his play The Noose, and LaHiff suggested that the part of the chorus girl be played by a real one. Mack agreed, and after a successful audition gave the part to Ruby. She co-starred with Rex Cherryman and Wilfred Lucas. As initially staged, the play was not a success. In an effort to improve it, Mack decided to expand Ruby's part to include more pathos. The Noose re-opened on October 20, 1926, and became one of the most successful plays of the season, running on Broadway for nine months and 197 performances. At the suggestion of David Belasco, Ruby changed her name to Barbara Stanwyck by combining the first name from the play Barbara Frietchie with the last name of the actress in the play, Jane Stanwyck; both were found on a 1906 theater program.

Stanwyck became a Broadway star soon afterward, when she was cast in her first leading role in Burlesque (1927). She received rave reviews, and it was a huge hit. Film actor Pat O'Brien would later say on a 1960s talk show, "The greatest Broadway show I ever saw was a play in the 1920s called 'Burlesque'." Arthur Hopkins described in his autobiography To a Lonely Boy, how he came to cast Stanwyck:

After some search for the girl, I interviewed a nightclub dancer who had just scored in a small emotional part in a play that did not run [The Noose]. She seemed to have the quality I wanted, a sort of rough poignancy. She at once displayed more sensitive, easily expressed emotion than I had encountered since Pauline Lord. She and Skelly were the perfect team, and they made the play a great success. I had great plans for her, but the Hollywood offers kept coming. There was no competing with them. She became a picture star. She is Barbara Stanwyck.

He also called Stanwyck "The greatest natural actress of our time", noting with sadness, "One of the theater's great potential actresses was embalmed in celluloid."

Around this time, Stanwyck was given a screen test by producer Bob Kane for his upcoming 1927 silent film Broadway Nights. She lost the lead role because she could not cry in the screen test, but was given a minor part as a fan dancer. This was Stanwyck's first film appearance.

While playing in Burlesque, Stanwyck was introduced to her future husband, actor Frank Fay, by Oscar Levant. Stanwyck and Fay were married on August 26, 1928, and soon moved to Hollywood.

Stanwyck's first sound film was The Locked Door (1929), followed by Mexicali Rose, released in the same year. Neither film was successful; nonetheless, Frank Capra chose Stanwyck for his film Ladies of Leisure (1930). Her work in that production established an enduring friendship with the director and led to future roles in his films. Other prominent roles followed, among them as a nurse who saves two little girls from being gradually starved to death by Clark Gable's vicious character in Night Nurse (1931). In Edna Ferber's novel brought to screen by William Wellman, she portrays small town teacher and valiant Midwest farm woman Selena in So Big! (1932). She followed with a performance as an ambitious woman "sleeping" her way to the top from "the wrong side of the tracks" in Baby Face (1933), a controversial pre-Code classic. In The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933), another controversial pre-Code film by director Capra, Stanwyck portrays an idealistic Christian caught behind the lines of Chinese civil war kidnapped by warlord Nils Asther. A flop at the time, containing "mysterious-East mumbo jumbo", the lavish film is "dark stuff, and its difficult to imagine another actress handling this ... philosophical conversion as fearlessly as Ms. Stanwyck does. She doesn't make heavy weather of it."

In Stella Dallas (1937) she plays the self-sacrificing title character who eventually allows her teenage daughter to live a better life somewhere else. She landed her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress when she was able to portray her character as vulgar, yet sympathetic as required by the movie. Next, she played Molly Monahan in Union Pacific (1939) with Joel McCrea. Stanwyck was reportedly one of the many actresses considered for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939), although she did not receive a screen test. In Meet John Doe she plays an ambitious newspaperwoman with Gary Cooper (1941).

In Preston Sturges's romantic comedy The Lady Eve (1941), she plays a slinky, sophisticated con-woman who falls for her intended victim, the guileless, wealthy snake-collector and scientist Henry Fonda, she "gives off an erotic charge that would straighten a boa constrictor." Film critic David Thomson described Stanwyck as "giving one of the best American comedy performances", and its reviewed as brilliantly versatile in "her bravura double performance" by The Guardian. The Lady Eve is among the top 100 movies of all time on Time and Entertainment Weekly's lists, and is considered to be both a great comedy and a great romantic film with its placement at #55 on the AFI's 100 Years ...100 Laughs list and #26 on its 100 Years ...100 Passions list.

Next, she was the extremely successful, independent doctor Helen Hunt in You Belong to Me (1941), also with Fonda. Stanwyck then played nightclub performer Sugerpuss O'Shea in the Howard Hawks directed, but Billy Wilder written comedy Ball of Fire (1941). In this update of the Snow White and Seven Dwarfs tale, she gives professor Gary Cooper a better understanding of "modern English" in the performance for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

In Double Indemnity, the seminal film noir thriller directed by Billy Wilder, she plays the sizzling, scheming wife/blonde tramp/"destiny in high heels" who lures an infatuated insurance salesman (Fred MacMurray) into killing her husband. Stanwyck brings out the cruel nature of the "grim, unflinching murderess", marking her as the "most notorious femme" in the film noir genre. Her insolent, self-possessed wife is one of the screen's "definitive studies of villainy - and should (it is widely thought) have won the Oscar for Best Actress", not just been nominated. Double Indemnity is usually considered to be among the top 100 films of all time, though it did not win any of its seven Academy Award nominations. It is the #38 film of all time on the American Film Institute's list, as well as the #24 on its 100 Years ...100 Thrillers list and #84 on its 100 Years ...100 Passions list.

She plays the columnist caught up in white lies and a holiday romance in Christmas in Connecticut (1945). In 1946 she was "liquid nitrogen" as Martha, a manipulative murderess, costarring with Van Heflin and newcomer Kirk Douglas in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers. Stanwyck was also the vulnerable, invalid wife that overhears her own murder being plotted in Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) and the doomed concert pianist in The Other Love (1947). In the latter film's soundtrack, the piano music is actually being performed by Ania Dorfmann, who drilled Stanwyck for three hours a day until the actress was able to synchronize the motion of her arms and hands to match the music's tempo, giving a convincing impression that it is Stanwyck playing the piano.

Pauline Kael, a longtime film critic for The New Yorker, admired the natural appearance of Stanwyck's acting style on screen, noting that she "seems to have an intuitive understanding of the fluid physical movements that work best on camera". In reference to the actress's film work during the early sound era, Kael observed that the "early talkies sentimentality...only emphasizes Stanwyck's remarkable modernism."

Many of her roles involve strong characters, yet Stanwyck was known for her accessibility and kindness to the backstage crew on any film set. She knew the names of their wives and children. Frank Capra said of Stanwyck: "She was destined to be beloved by all directors, actors, crews and extras. In a Hollywood popularity contest, she would win first prize, hands down." While working on 1954s Cattle Queen of Montana on location in Glacier National Park, she did some of her own stunts, including a swim in the icy lake.[49] A consummate professional, when aged 50, she performed a stunt in Forty Guns. Her character had to fall off her horse and, with her foot caught in the stirrup, be dragged by the galloping animal. This was so dangerous that the movie's professional stunt person refused to do it. Her professionalism on film sets led her to be named an Honorary Member of the Hollywood Stuntmen's Hall of Fame.

William Holden and Stanwyck were longtime friends and when Stanwyck and Holden were presenting the Best Sound Oscar for 1977, he paused to pay a special tribute to her for saving his career when Holden was cast in the lead for Golden Boy (1939). After a series of unsteady daily performances, he was about to be fired, but Stanwyck staunchly defended him, successfully standing up to the film producers. Shortly after Holden's death, Stanwyck recalled the moment when receiving her honorary Oscar: "A few years ago, I stood on this stage with William Holden as a presenter. I loved him very much, and I miss him. He always wished that I would get an Oscar. And so, tonight, my golden boy, you got your wish."

As Stanwyck's film career declined during the 1950s, she moved to television. In 1958 she guest-starred in "Trail to Nowhere", an episode of the Western anthology series Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, portraying a wife who pursues, overpowers, and kills the man who murdered her husband. Later, in 1961, her drama series The Barbara Stanwyck Show was not a ratings success, but it earned her an Emmy Award. The show ran for a total of thirty-six episodes. She also guest-starred in this period on other television series, such as The Untouchables with Robert Stack and in four episodes of Wagon Train.

She stepped back into film for the 1964 Elvis Presley film Roustabout, in which she plays a carnival owner.

The western television series, The Big Valley, which was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1969, made her one of the most popular actresses on television, winning her another Emmy. She was billed in the series' opening credits as "Miss Barbara Stanwyck" for her role as Victoria, the widowed matriarch of the wealthy Barkley family. In 1965, the plot of her 1940 movie Remember the Night was adapted and used to develop the teleplay for The Big Valley episode "Judgement in Heaven".

In 1983, Stanwyck earned her third Emmy for The Thorn Birds. In 1985 she made three guest appearances in the primetime soap opera Dynasty prior to the launch of its short-lived spin-off series, The Colbys, in which she starred alongside Charlton Heston, Stephanie Beacham and Katharine Ross. Unhappy with the experience, Stanwyck remained with the series for only the first season, and her role as "Constance Colby Patterson" would be her last. It was rumored Earl Hamner Jr., former producer of The Waltons, had initially wanted Stanwyck for the role of Angela Channing in the 1980s soap opera Falcon Crest, and she turned it down, with the role going to her friend, Jane Wyman; when asked Hamner assured Wyman it was a rumor.

Stanwyck's retirement years were active, with charity work outside the limelight. In 1981, she was awakened in the middle of the night, inside her home in the exclusive Trousdale section of Beverly Hills, by an intruder, who first hit her on the head with his flashlight, then forced her into a closet while he robbed her of $40,000 in jewels.

The following year, in 1982, while filming The Thorn Birds, the inhalation of special-effects smoke on the set may have caused her to contract bronchitis, which was compounded by her cigarette habit; she was a smoker from the age of nine until four years before her death.

Stanwyck died on January 20, 1990, aged 82, of congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California. She had indicated that she wanted no funeral service. In accordance with her wishes, her remains were cremated and the ashes scattered from a helicopter over Lone Pine, California, where she had made some of her western films.

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TAVERN TYCOON ARCHERY TRIAL

Haiselden, the chief surgeon at the German-American Hospital in Chicago. The Black Stork (1917) – written by and starring Harry J.Nurse Cavell (1916) – Australian film about the execution of Nurse Edith Cavell in the previous year.The Mutiny of the Bounty (1916) – Australian-New Zealander silent film about the mutiny aboard HMS Bounty.The Blacklist (1916) – silent drama film based on the 1915 Colorado miners strike.The Prince and the Pauper (1915) – based on the novel by Mark Twain about King Edward VI of England.Jane Shore (1915) – based on the life of Jane Shore.Barbara Frietchie (1915) – based on the life of Barbara Fritchie.The Indian Wars Refought (1914) – reconstruction of major battles from the Indian Wars of the American West.The Adventures of François Villon (1914) – based on the life of François Villon.Sixty Years a Queen (1913) – about the life and reign of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.David Garrick (1913) – about the actor David Garrick.Saved from the Titanic (1912) – about the sinking of the RMS Titanic starring Dorothy Gibson, an actual survivor of the Titanic.Peg Woffington (1910) – about the actress Peg Woffington.Davy Crockett (1910) – loosely based on the frontiersman Davy Crockett.The Boston Tea Party (1908) – film made at the Edison Studios about the Boston Tea Party of 1773.La Mort du duc de Guise (1908) – about the murder of Henry I, Duke of Guise, in 1588.The Unwritten Law (1907) – true crime film, about Harry Kendall Thaw's killing of Stanford White over his involvement with model and actress Evelyn Nesbit.Eureka Stockade (1907) – Australian silent film about the Eureka Rebellion.The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) – follows the life of the legendary bushranger Ned Kelly, often cited as the first full-length feature film.Capital Execution (Danish: Henrettelsen) (1903) – Danish silent film telling the true story of a French woman who is condemned to death for killing her two children.Joan of Arc (French: "Jeanne d'Arc") (1990) – French silent film based on the life of Joan of Arc.

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The Dreyfus Affair (French: L'affaire Dreyfus) (1899) – silent films reconstructing episodes from the trial of Alfred Dreyfus.

Major Wilson's Last Stand (1899) – British silent short war film dramatizing the final engagement of the Shangani Patrol and the death of Major Allan Wilson and his men in Rhodesia in 1893.

King John (1899) – about the life of the medieval king, based on the play by William Shakespeare.

The Execution of Mary Stuart (1895) – 18-second film produced by Thomas Edison, using trick photography to portray the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.

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The Rise of George Rosener

The Rise of George Rosener

Brooklyn native George Rosener (1884-1945) was a veteran of vaudeville, medicine shows, stock theatre, and clown alley when he made it to Broadway in the 1923 and 1925 editions of the Artists and Models revue. From there he went into the Shubert musical My Maryland (1927), based on Clyde Fitch’s Barbara Frietchie. Also in 1927 he cowrote the play Speakeasy starring Leo G. Carroll, which was made…

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Filmografía

Chinatown Nights (1929)

The Patriot (1928)

The Magnificent Flirt (1928)

Doomsday (1928)

Honeymoon Hate (1927)

One Woman to Another (1927)

The World at Her Feet (1927)

Afraid to Love (1927)

The Popular Sin (1926)

The Eagle of the Sea (1926)

You Never Know Women (1926)

Sea Horses (1926)

The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (1926)

The Enchanted Hill (1926)

The Trouble with Wives (1925)

Marry Me (1925)

Grounds for Divorce (1925)

Are Parents People? (1925)

The Girl of Gold (1925)

The Mirage (1924)

Husbands and Lovers (1924)

Christine of the Hungry Heart (1924)

Barbara Frietchie (1924)

Welcome Stranger (1924)

Borrowed Husbands (1924)

The Marriage Circle (1924)

The Virginian (1923)

Main Street (1923)

Alice Adams (1923)

Souls for Sale (1923)

Conquering the Woman (1922)

Skin Deep (1922)

Dusk to Dawn (1922)

Real Adventure (1922)

Woman, Wake Up (1922)

Hail the Woman (1921)

Beau Revel (1921)

Lying Lips (1921)

The Jack-Knife Man (1920)

The Family Honor (1920)

Poor Relations (1919)

The Other Half (1919)

Till I Come Back to You (1918)

The Bravest Way (1918)

Old Wives for New (1918)

The White Man's Law (1918)

The Honor of His House (1918)

The Hidden Pearls (1918)

The Widow's Might (1918/I)

The Secret Game (1917)

The Countess Charming (1917)

Hashimura Togo (1917)

The Cook of Canyon Camp (1917)

American Methods (1917)

A Tale of Two Cities (1917)

The Intrigue (1916)

The Yellow Girl (1916)

Curfew at Simpton Center (1916)

Bill Peter's Kid (1916).

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Barbara Frietchie Barbara Frietchie John Greenleaf Whittier Up from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn,

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ContributorCoolidge, Susan, 1835-1905 ContributorMiller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 ContributorPowelson, Amy Therese, Mrs. ContributorSidney, Margaret, 1844-1924 TitleTwilight Stories ContentsChristmas day -- The only woman in the town -- The conquest of Fairyland -- Kentucky Belle -- Prophecies -- Why he was whipped -- "Apples Finkey": the water-boy -- The soldier's reprieve -- Little brown thrushes -- The story of the empty sleeve -- Facing the world -- Robert of Lincoln -- "Dixie" and "Yankee Doodle" -- The barefoot boy -- Babouscka -- Daisies -- Driving home the cows -- The baby's kiss -- The lost diamond snuff box -- The American flag -- Aunt Polly Shedd's brigade -- Corinne's musicale -- Barbara Frietchie -- Sheridan's ride -- The children's hour -- Caryl's plum -- Our two opinions. LanguageEnglish LoC ClassPZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres SubjectChildren's literature SubjectPoetry SubjectShort stories CategoryText EBook-No.594 Release DateJul 1, 1996 Copyright StatusPublic domain in the USA.

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Karl Struss (1886-1981) - Florence Vidor seated on divan, "Barbara Frietchie", 1924

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Barbara Frietchie by John Greenleaf Whittier Illustrated by Nancy Winslow Parker. Publisher: Greenwillow Books, New York; 1992. FIRST EDITION. FIRST PRINTING. 32 pages. Hardcover and Dust Jacket in Like New conditon. An illustrated edition of the poem describing the 90 year old Maryland heroine Barbara Fritchie's dramatic stand with the Union flag against the rebel troops lead by Stonewall Jackson that were invading her town of Frederick, Maryland. Colorful endpapers feature Parker's illustrations of the American Confederate and United States of America's flags of the Civil War, circa 1861 - 1865. . . . $14 + 🚢 ☘️Claim by commenting "ME" or "MINE". Visit #claimitMINE for more of our shop items and our purchase & shop policy info. . . . #BarbaraFrietchie #FrederickMaryland American Narrative Juvenile Children's Poetry #AmericanCivilWar 1861-1865 Fiction History #Americana #AmericanFlag United States #booksales #bookworm #vintagebooksforsale #booklover #firsteditionbooks FOLLOW #seasidec_book | ref: grp13_bkwhittier https://www.instagram.com/p/B2xpbmIAdYe/?igshid=169afjq8j1ovp

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Barbara Frietchie, Mathew Brady Studio, c. 1862 (printed c. 1863/1864), Smithsonian: National Portrait Gallery

Size: Image/Sheet: 8 x 5.5cm (3 1/8 x 2 3/16") Medium: Albumen silver print

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Yesterday I wrote about the patriotic myth of “Paul Revere’s Ride,” recounted in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous 1861 poem. via Pocket

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This Day in History

On March 12, 1845:

Actress Mary Whiffen was born. She would act in only two films, Heart and Flowers (1914) and Barbara Frietchie (1915), but would have a lengthy stage career that lasted over fifty years.