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Stage actress and manager (1826-1873) whose company was playing Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre on the night of Lincoln's assassination. After he was shot, she entered his box and tried to comfort him, cradling his head in her lap. Large original 5.75 x 18 broadside for a benefit show presented by “Laura Keene and Her Celebrated New York Star Company!,” held at the Howard Athenæum in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 30, 1863, two years before she appeared as Florence Trenchard in a production of Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theater on April 14, 1865, the night President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth. The broadside two plays for that evening, with Keene serving as the star of both: Two Can Play at That Game and No Rest for the Wicked. In very good to fine condition, with scattered light stains.
