America’s First Sex Symbol
By Elizabeth A. Topping, with images from the author’s collection Actress and poet Adah Isaacs Menken’s extraordinary beauty provided Americans with a pleasant distraction during the Civil War years. Her
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The Harp Backdrop of Camp Graham
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My Darling Clementine
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