Site of Thoreau's hut, Lake Walden, Concord, Mass. – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Site of Thoreau's hut, Lake Walden, Concord, Mass.
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Walden Pond, outside Concord, Massachusetts, is shown at the spot where Henry David Thoreau built his small cabin in 1845 and lived for about two years, drafting the essays later published as *Walden*. By the time this view was made around 1908, the cabin itself had long since disappeared, so the scene now stands mainly as a place known through his book. The Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm that issued landscape views across the United States in those years, made the original negative, and this is a copy of one that broke.
| Created / published | c1908. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : film ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Film negatives. |
| Notes | Copy of negative D4-70454, which broke. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070454. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Thoreau, Henry David,--1817-1862--Homes & haunts. Waterfronts.United States--Massachusetts--Walden Pond. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,204 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-118866 |
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