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The Thoreau and Alcott House, Concord, Mass. – Vintage Print

The Thoreau and Alcott House, Concord, Mass., [ca. 1900] — historic photograph
The Thoreau and Alcott House, Concord, Mass., [ca. 1900]. Historic photograph from the Boston collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Concord, Massachusetts, was home to Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott, two of the central figures of American Transcendentalism, and this view records a house linked to both writers' circle. The photograph was made around 1900 as a glass negative by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that produced a large catalog of American town and landscape views during the period. By then Concord drew steady numbers of literary pilgrims, so such images served both as local records and as souvenirs of the town's literary reputation. The architecture and street setting offer a useful look at a New England village just before the automobile transformed it.

Created / published[ca. 1900]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesCorresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-29533. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013058. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsDwellings.United States--Massachusetts--Concord.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan5,161 × 4,044 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-57999

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