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Grace Hawthorne

by Ernest Barraud, published by Strand Publishing Company
carbon print, published 2 January 1888
4 3/8 in. x 3 1/2 in. (110 mm x 88 mm) image size
Purchased, 1980
Photographs Collection
NPG Ax9320

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  • Grace Hawthorne (1848-1922), Actress, theatre lessee and producer. Sitter in 2 portraits.

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  • Ernest Barraud (active late 1880s), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 4 portraits.
  • Strand Publishing Company (active late 1880s), Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 50 portraits.

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Current affairs

Charles Ritchie, President of the Local Government Board, is responsible for the Local Government Act, a landmark piece of reform that establishes 62 elected county councils and over sixty county boroughs, with responsibility for roads, bridges, drains and general county business.
Five prostitutes are murdered, and their bodies mutilated, in Whitechapel, East London, by an unidentified killer who became known as 'Jack the Ripper'. The murderer was never discovered.

Art and science

Heinrich Hertz performs experiments validating James Clark Maxwell's model of electromagnetic radiation, a form of wireless energy transfer. His apparatus for generating electromagnetic waves is recognised as the first radio transmitter.
The term 'arts and crafts' is coined by the bookbinder T J Cobden-Sanderson with the establishment of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society.

International

Accession of Kaiser Wilhelm II to the German throne. Wilhelm, the son of Kaiser Frederick III and Victoria, daughter of Queen Victoria, was the last Kaiser of Germany.
George Eastman invents the Kodak box camera, the first commercially successful box camera for roll film, with the slogan 'you press the button - we do the rest'.

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Jenifer Cartland

05 January 2018, 01:10

Grace Hawthorne was born in Bangor, Maine, in 1848 and moved with her family to Pentwater, Michigan, about 1967. Her birth name is Priscilla A. Cartland. Her father was Asa Samuel Cartland (b. 1823 in Bangor and d. 1896 in Pentwater l, MI) and her mother Priscilla Godwin (b. 1821 in Bangor and d. unknown — 1896 — in paris, France). She traveled throughout the Midwest to learn her craft as a young woman and then moved to London in the late 1880s, where she was an actress and theater manager.