RECENT RESEARCH — For nearly a century, the collection of the Society of California Pioneers has included a photograph whose subject has been identified — including by the authors of the two published biographies of Emperor Norton and by The Emperor Norton Trust — as Joshua Abraham Norton, the future Emperor Norton. There are many good reasons for believing that the gentleman in the photo is NOT, in fact, Joshua Norton — and no good reasons, it seems, for continuing to believe that it IS. Herewith, a reassessment.
TO HONOR THE LIFE + ADVANCE THE LEGACY OF JOSHUA ABRAHAM NORTON
RESEARCH • EDUCATION • ADVOCACY
Did you know that, when Joshua Norton was living in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in the early 1840s, he did a stint as an auctioneer? We didn’t!
Every new dot makes the picture a little sharper.
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