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Warren's Portraits Cabinet card photograph by Warren's Portraits, 3/4 seated

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05142 Author/Creator: Warren's Portraits Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Photograph signed Date: 1874 ca. Pagination: 1 cabinet card Height: 16.5 cm, Width: 10.7 cm Order a Copy

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, three-quarter length portrait, seated. Notes from collector inscribed on verso.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882

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