1875 POSTER - HENRY WARD BEECHER SCANDAL TRIAL - ADVERTISING BOOK ON THE TRIAL

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LARGE ORIGINAL 1875 ILLUSTRATED ADVERTISING POSTER FROM THE PUBLISHERS OF A BOOK COVERING THE RECENT SCANDAL TRIAL INVOLVING FAMED PREACHER, HENRY WARD BEECHER - ACCUSED OF AN AFFAIR WITH ANOTHER MAN'S WIFE. MEASURES APPROX. 20" x 26". Printed at bottom is: "Celebrities of the Great Trial 'Theodore Tilton vs. Henry Ward Beecher. The Verbatim Report - McDivitt Campbell & Co., Publishers, 79 Nassau St., N.Y." Printed just below the bottom of the illustrations is: "ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS IN THE YEAR 1875 BY McDIVITT CAMPBELL & CO. IN THE OFFICE OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS AT WASHINGTON, D.C." THE POSTER HAS PORTRAITS OF 18 PEOPLE, WHO ALL PLAYED AN IMPORTANT PART IN THIS TRIAL WHICH WAS WIDELY COVERED BY THE PRESS. Henry Ward Beecher, (1813-1887), one of the most famous Preachers of his era, noted for his sermons at the Plymouth Congregational Church at Brooklyn, N.Y., was an active supporter of Lincoln & the Union Cause during the Civil War, and a staunch anti-Slavery advocate. In the summer of 1874, Theodore Tilton, a member of Rev. Beecher's church, accused Beecher of "criminality" with his wife, Elizabeth R. Tilton. Mr. Tilton instituted a civil suit against Beecher, seeking damages of $100,000. The trial lasted 6 months, and at its close, the jury, after a week, was unable to agree on a verdict. Among the players read more

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