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[Ralph Waldo Emerson, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

1886·Source: loc·View original ↗·Public Domain

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1 photoprint on cabinet card.

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The Library of Congress holds this cabinet card photoprint from 1886, showing a head-and-shoulders portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson facing right.

The record provides no information about the photographer, the circumstances of the sitting, or where the photograph was made. Nothing is known from the cataloguing about Emerson's age at the time or what prompted this particular portrait session.

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