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Pfaff's
Pfaff's was a drinking establishment in Manhattan, New York City, known for its literary and artistic clientele. Description Opened in 1855 by Charles Ignatious Pfaff, the original Pfaff's was modeled after the German Rathskellers that were popular in Europe at the time. Charles Pfaff's beer cellar was located on Broadway near Bleecker Street (before 1862, Pfaff's address was given as 647 Broadway; after 1865, its location was advertised as 653 Broadway) in Greenwich Village, New York City. To enter the beer cellar—which was actually a vaulted ceiling bar and restaurant—its patrons had to go down a set of stairs. From the mid-1850s to the late 1860s, Pfaff's was the center of New York's revolutionary culture. As writer Allan Gurganus has said, "Pfaff’s was the Andy Warhol factory, the Studio 54, the Algonquin Round Table all rolled into one." Habitués included journalist and social critic Henry Clapp, Jr., Walt Whitman, author and actress Ada Clare, poet and actress Ada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fitz James O'Brien
Fitz-James O'Brien (25 October 1826 — 6 April 1862) was an Irish Americans, Irish-American writer of works in fantasy and science fiction short stories. His career was marked by a significant contribution to the American literary scene in the mid-19th century. Biography Early life and influences O'Brien was born in County Cork, Ireland; the exact date and year of his birth is debated. His first biographer, Francis Wolle, placed it between April and October of 1828. His father, James O'Brien, was an Lawyer, attorney of some influence, while his paternal grandparents, Michael O'Brien and Catherine Deasy, owned Brownston House, Brownstone House near Clonakilty. Her parents, Michael and Helen O'Driscoll, owned Baltimore House in County Limerick. After James's death in 1839/40, Eliza remarried DeCourcy O'Grady, and the family moved to Limerick, where O'Brien spent most of his teenage years. O'Brien had a privileged upbringing, taking up activities like hunting, fishing, horseback r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Butler Gunn
Thomas Butler Gunn (15 February 1826 – 7 April 1904) was an English born illustrator, writer and war correspondent who spent fourteen years in America. His diaries of this period provide details of his life amongst the bohemian writers and artist in New York including Frank Bellew, Sol Eytinge Jr., Fanny Fern, Thomas Nast, James Parton, Fitz James O'Brien, Alfred Waud and Walt Whitman. Early life The Gunn family had been farming for several generations in the Banbury, Oxfordshire area of England. Gunn's father, Samuel, (1785–1863) grew up on a farm but left to start a grocery business. In 1809, he married Sarah Arnold, and they had two daughters before Sarah died in 1815.Only one of these daughters survived to adulthood, she was Mary Anne who married Joseph Greatbatch, the grandson of William Greatbatch (1735–1813), a potter. The family later changed its surname to Bristol, the maiden name of Joseph's mother. In 1822, the widowed Samuel married Naomi Butler. Their son, Thoma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Saturday Press (literary Newspaper)
''The Saturday Press'' was a literary weekly newspaper, published in New York City from 1858 to 1860 and again from 1865 to 1866, edited by Henry Clapp Jr. Clapp, nicknamed the "King of Bohemia" and credited with importing the term "bohemianism" to the U.S, was a central part of the antebellum New York literary and art scene. Today he is perhaps best known for his spotlighting of Walt Whitman, Fitz-James O'Brien, and Ada Clare – all habitués of the bohemian watering hole named Pfaff's beer cellar – in ''The Saturday Press''. Clapp intended the ''Press'' to be New York's answer to ''The Atlantic Monthly''. The ''Press'' was constantly troubled by financial problems, and Clapp died in poverty and obscurity. Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Fau ...'s fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ada Clare
Ada Clare (pen names, Clare and Ada Clare; July 1834 – March 4, 1874) was an American actress and writer.Kenneth T. Jackson: ''The Encyclopedia of New York City'': The New York Historical Society; Yale University Press; 1995. P. 238. Life and career Ada Agnes Jane McElhenney was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1834. She grew up under the care of her maternal grandfather as part of an aristocratic Southern family, but started her career as a writer around age 18, writing under the pseudonyms Clare and later Ada Clare. She moved to New York City in 1854, took up acting, engaged in a widely publicized liaison with pianist and composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk, and bore a son out of wedlock. During the height of her acting career, she frequented Pfaff's Cellar, where she became known as the "Queen of Bohemia". She also wrote for the ''Saturday Press'', an iconoclastic weekly magazine of the arts. Her only novel, entitled ''Only a Woman's Heart'', was poorly received by revi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elihu Vedder
Elihu Vedder (26 February 183629 January 1923) was an American symbolist painter, book illustrator and poet from New York City. He is best known for his fifty-five illustrations for Edward FitzGerald's translation of '' The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'' (deluxe edition, published by Houghton Mifflin). Biography Elihu Vedder was born on 26 February 1836 in New York City, the son of Dr. Elihu Vedder Sr. and Elizabeth Vedder. His parents were cousins. His father, a dentist, decided to try his luck in Cuba, and this had a profound impact on Elihu Jr.'s childhood. The remainder of his childhood was spent between his maternal grandfather Alexander Vedder's house in Schenectady and a boarding school. His mother supported his goals to be an artist while his father reluctantly assented, convinced that his son should try a different occupation. His brother, Dr. Alexander Madison Vedder, was a Navy surgeon who witnessed the transformation of Japan into a modern culture while he was statione ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Booth
Edwin Thomas Booth (November 13, 1833 – June 7, 1893) was an American stage actor and theatrical manager who toured throughout the United States and the major capitals of Europe, performing Shakespearean plays. In 1869, he founded Booth's Theatre in New York. He is considered by many to be the greatest American actor of the 19th century. However, his achievements are often overshadowed in modern discourse by his relationship with his younger brother, actor John Wilkes Booth, who Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, assassinated the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. Early life Booth was born in Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland, Bel Air, Maryland, into the Anglo-American theatrical Booth family. He was the son of the famous actor Junius Brutus Booth, an Englishman, and his mistress (later wife) Mary Ann Holmes. He was named after Edwin Forrest and Thomas Flynn (actor), Thomas Flynn, two of Junius' colleagues. He was the younger brother of Junius Brutus Booth J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Farrar Browne
Charles Farrar Browne (April 26, 1834 – March 6, 1867) was an American humor writer, better known under his ''nom de plume'', Artemus Ward, which as a character, an illiterate rube with "Yankee common sense", Browne also played in public performances. He is considered to be America's first stand-up comedian.Tarnoff, Benjamin (2014). The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature. Penguin Books. . His birth name was Brown but he added the "e" after he became famous. Biography Browne was born on 26 April 1834, in Waterford, Maine to Caroline (née Farrar) "a descendant of the first Puritans" and Levi Brown, who "operated a store in Waterford, engaged in farming and did some surveying", and was a justice of the peace. He began his career at the age of fourteen, "learned the printer's trade" at '' The Advertiser'' in Norway, Maine, and later apprenticed in the printing office of ''The Skowhegan Clarion'', Skowhegan, Maine, then, as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adah Isaacs Menken
Adah Isaacs Menken (June 15, 1835August 10, 1868) was an American actress, painter and poet, and was the highest earning actress of her time.Palmer, Pamela Lynn"Adah Isaacs Menken" ''Handbook of Texas Online,'' published by the Texas State Historical Association, accessed August 10, 2012. She was best known for her performance in the hippodrama '' Mazeppa'', with a climax that featured her apparently nude and riding a horse on stage. After great success for a few years with the play in New York and San Francisco, she appeared in a production in London and Paris, from 1864 to 1866. After a brief trip back to the United States, she returned to Europe. She became ill within two years and died in Paris at the age of 33. Menken told many versions of her origins, including her name, place of birth, ancestry, and religion, and historians have differed in their accounts. Most have said she was born a Louisiana Creole Catholic, with European and African ancestry. A celebrity who created ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fitz Hugh Ludlow
Fitz Hugh Ludlow, sometimes seen as Fitzhugh Ludlow (September 11, 1836 – September 12, 1870), was an American author, journalist, and explorer; best known for his autobiographical book ''The Hasheesh Eater'' (1857). Ludlow also wrote about his travels across America on the overland stage to San Francisco, Yosemite and the forests of California and Oregon in his second book, ''The Heart of the Continent.'' An appendix to it provides his impressions of the recently founded Mormon settlement in Utah. He was also the author of many works of short fiction, essays, science reporting and art criticism. He devoted many of the last years of his life to attempts to improve the treatment of opiate addicts, becoming a pioneer in both progressive approaches dealing with addiction and the public portrayal of its sufferers. Though of modest means, he was imprudently generous in aiding those unable to cope with drug-induced life struggles. Ludlow died prematurely at the age of 34 from the ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UrbanDaddy
UrbanDaddy is a company based in New York which published content about men's luxury lifestyle topics. As of August 2012, its websites and newsletters have more than 4.5 million subscriber in ten U.S. markets. UrbanDaddy publishes a daily email newsletter covering a single piece of news pertaining to nightlife, food and dining as well as lifestyle and entertainment. The company is privately held, with a business model supported by advertising revenue and e-commerce. History UrbanDaddy was founded in 2005, by CEO Lance Broumand. Broumand left a career in law to start UrbanDaddy. In addition to UrbanDadddy's lifestyle content the company also publishes reports about luxury automobiles on a web site called Driven.com and editorial focused on men's style on GetKempt.com. In 2011, UrbanDaddy launched Manero, a digital publication and social club for Latin Americans living in the United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discotheque
A nightclub or dance club is a club that is open at night, usually for drinking, dancing and other entertainment. Nightclubs often have a bar and discotheque (usually simply known as disco) with a dance floor, laser lighting displays, and a stage for live music or a disc jockey (DJ) who mixes recorded music. Nightclubs tend to be smaller than live music venues like theatres and stadiums, with few or no seats for customers. Nightclubs generally restrict access to people in terms of age, attire, personal belongings, and behaviors. Nightclubs typically have dress codes to prohibit people wearing informal, indecent, offensive, or gang-related attire from entering. Unlike other entertainment venues, nightclubs are more likely to use bouncers to screen prospective patrons for entry. The busiest nights for a nightclub are Friday and Saturday nights. Most nightclubs cater to a particular music genre or sound for branding effects. Some nightclubs may offer food and beverages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
