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[Henry David Thoreau, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right] – Vintage Photo Print

[Henry David Thoreau, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right], c1879. — historic photograph
[Henry David Thoreau, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right], c1879.. 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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This head-and-shoulders study shows Henry David Thoreau turned slightly to the right. Its date of about 1879, seventeen years after his death in 1862, and the copyright notice in the name of photographer Geo. F. Parlow suggest a later reproduction of an earlier sitting, though the record does not say when that original was made. Thoreau, a Concord writer and friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson, wrote *Walden*, drawn from his two years at Walden Pond and published in 1854. The portrait offers a face for a writer whose quiet, skeptical essays on nature and conscience have shaped American letters.

Created / publishedc1879.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1870.Photographic prints 1850-1870.
NotesK10608 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Geo. F. Parlow.
SubjectsThoreau, Henry David,--1817-1862.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan935 × 1,473 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-107498

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