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| Keywords: Benjamin D. Maxham - Henry David Thoreau - Restored.jpg Portrait photograph from a ninth-plate daguerreotype of Henry David Thoreau <br><small>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 Huntington Street 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 </small> Institution National Portrait Gallery Washington 1856-06-18 Benjamin D Maxham active 1848 - 1858 Retouched picture Partial restoration; cropped removed several artifacts Scewing Benjamin D Maxham - Henry David Thoreau - Google Art Project jpg http //npgportraits si edu/eMuseumNPG/code/emuseum asp rawsearch ObjectID/ /is/ /31401/ /false/ /false newprofile CAP newstyle single PD-old-70 Photographs of Thoreau 1856 portrait photographs Photographs of Thoreau 00 19 10 March 2013 UTC Benjamin D Maxham - Henry David Thoreau - Restored jpg | ||||
