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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Artist William Shaw Warren (American, d. 1911)
Publisher G.W. Thorne (American)
CultureAmerican
Date1870s
MediumAlbumen
DimensionsOverall, Image: 3 3/4 × 2 5/16 in. (9.5 × 5.9 cm)
Overall, Support: 4 1/8 × 2 1/2 in. (10.5 × 6.4 cm)
InscribedHandwritten on front and back: "Emerson". Stamped on front: "Warren, 289 Washington St., Boston, G.W. Thorne, 60 Nassau St., New York". Stamped on reverse: "Warren's, 289 Washington St., Boston, Mass., Under the Superintendence of Mr. S.B. Heald".
Credit LineMuseum purchase and gift of Reid Diggs, Jr.
Object number90.279
On View
Not on view
DescriptionThis is an albumen carte de visite depicting Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882; essayist, poet, Transcendentalist, lecturer.

New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
William Shaw Warren
1870s
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
William Shaw Warren
1870s
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
William Shaw Warren
1870s
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
William Shaw Warren
1870s
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
William Shaw Warren
1870s
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
William Shaw Warren
1870s
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
William Shaw Warren
1870s
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
William Shaw Warren
1870s
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
William Shaw Warren
1870s
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
William Shaw Warren
1870s
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
William Shaw Warren
1870s