SIX NEW - ENGLAND AUTHORS. Hawthorne, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes and Lowell

by Wm. H. - Photographer. Hawthorne Halliday, Nathaniel, Ralph

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First edition

Boston: 1897. 1st Edition. The album is divided into sections, each section devoted to one of these 6 iconic American poets & authors. First, affixed to the page, is an original silver gelatin portrait photograph of each taken at that time, except for Whittier's photo is an albumen taken at an earlier time as he had died in 1892, Lowell's is also an albumen as he died in 1891; and Holmes is also an albumen. Next is a description of

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