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Middletown: A Photographic History

by Peter Laskaris


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TOP: 1883 photo of West Main St. showing Bull's Opera House, Photo by Luis Hensel of Port Jervis, NY.
MIDDLE: Similar view taken in 1981. Photo by Peter Laskaris.
AT RIGHT: Edwin Booth, brother of President Lincoln's assassin, acted at Bull’s Opera House. November 23, 1864, photo shows the Both browhers in benefit performance of *Julius Caesar. John Wilkes at left as Marc Antony Edwin in center as Buts, and Junius Baitis Bath, Jr, at right as Cassius.