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English: Portrait photograph from a ninth-plate daguerreotype of Henry David Thoreau.
Calvin R. Greene was a Thoreau “disciple” who lived in Rochester, Michigan, and who first began corresponding with Thoreau in January 1856. When Greene asked for a photographic image of the author, Thoreau initially replied: “You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing personally – the stuttering, blundering, clodhopper that I am.” Yet Greene repeated his request and sent money for the sitting. Thoreau must have kept this commitment to his fan in the back of his mind for the next several months. On June 18, 1856, during a trip to Worcester, Massachusetts, Henry Thoreau visited the Daguerrean Palace of Benjamin D. Maxham at 16 Harrington Corner and had three daguerreotypes taken for fifty cents each. He gave two of the prints to his Worcester friends and hosts, H.G.O. Blake and Theophilius Brown. The third he sent to Calvin Greene in Michigan. “While in Worcester this week I obtained the accompanying daguerreotype – which my friends think is pretty good – though better looking than I,” Thoreau wrote.
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Author Benjamin D. Maxham active 1848 - 1858
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current18:37, 18 September 2018Thumbnail for version as of 18:37, 18 September 20182,484 × 3,327 (1.93 MB)Hohumrv, not improvements
22:50, 4 September 2016Thumbnail for version as of 22:50, 4 September 20163,560 × 4,408 (9.49 MB)Governor Jerjerrodmirror image
20:02, 20 September 2015Thumbnail for version as of 20:02, 20 September 20153,560 × 4,408 (9.77 MB)JJARichardsonfixed the tilt again
05:42, 18 April 2015Thumbnail for version as of 05:42, 18 April 20153,836 × 4,599 (3.93 MB)RedthoreauFurther restored. Cropped more. Sharpened.
16:22, 21 January 2015Thumbnail for version as of 16:22, 21 January 20152,484 × 3,327 (1.93 MB)DennissReverted to version as of 00:05, 7 February 2014
13:01, 18 October 2014Thumbnail for version as of 13:01, 18 October 20142,484 × 3,327 (2.05 MB)Governor Jerjerrodflipped horizontally (daguerrotype mirrored)
00:05, 7 February 2014Thumbnail for version as of 00:05, 7 February 20142,484 × 3,327 (1.93 MB)Crisco 1492Reverted to version as of 20:30, 2 March 2013 per Commons:Overwriting existing files; this is VI already
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20:30, 2 March 2013Thumbnail for version as of 20:30, 2 March 20132,484 × 3,327 (1.93 MB)Scewingminor fix
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