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Whipple, John Adams, 1822-1891 [R.W. Emerson]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05141 Author/Creator: Whipple, John Adams, 1822-1891 Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Photograph signed Date: 1860 ca. Pagination: 1 carte de visite Height: 10.6 cm, Width: 6.3 cm Order a Copy

Carte de visite bust portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Note by previous owner on verso: "1803-1882 t[aken] @ [age] 58 = 1861."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Reform Movement
Literature and Language Arts
Poetry
Transcendentalist
Age of Jackson

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