[Thoreau's cove, Lake Walden, Concord, Mass.] – Historic Reproduction
![[Thoreau's cove, Lake Walden, Concord, Mass.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/80/805a68fcd219-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with [Thoreau's cove, Lake Walden, Concord, Mass.], a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Thoreau's cove, Lake Walden, Concord, Mass.]
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Thoreau's cove on Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, is the particular spot this glass negative records, a small inlet tied to the writer who lived in a cabin by the pond from 1845 to 1847 and wrote *Walden* from those years. The Detroit Publishing Company, which produced commercial views of American places around the turn of the twentieth century, made the plate between 1900 and 1910, when visitors to Concord were already treating the pond as a literary pilgrimage site. The image shows the wooded shoreline as Thoreau's readers would have pictured it, a view shaped as much by his book as by the landscape itself.
| Created / published | [between 1900 and 1910] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Title from jacket. 4006" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034878. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Thoreau, Henry David,--1817-1862--Homes & haunts. Lakes & ponds.United States--Massachusetts--Walden Pond. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,051 × 4,006 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-67676 |
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