May 2, 2022 · English: Portrait by Benjamin D. Maxham (daguerreotype), black and white of Henry David Thoreau in June 1856. The writer-collar post a beard and is dressed in a black frock coat, a …

Sep 12, 2024 · Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), photograph by Benjamin Dexter Maxham, 1856. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

When an admirer wrote from Michigan in 1856 asking for Thoreau’s daguerreotype and enclosing money to defray its cost, the author reluctantly obliged. A visit to Maxham’s Daguerrean Palace …

Photographic portrait of Henry David Thoreau, from the 1861 E. S. Dunshee ambrotype. Undated cabinet card (albumen print mounted on card stock) after the Dunshee ambrotype.

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Biographical/Historical: "Thoreau wrote of this 1856 daguerreotype by Benjamin Maxham: 'my friends think [it] is pretty good though better looking than I.' His friend Horace Hosmer thought it the best …

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Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American philosopher, poet, environmental scientist, and political activist whose major work, Walden, draws upon each of these various identities in meditating …