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DescriptionBenjamin D. Maxham - Henry David Thoreau - Restored - greyscale - straightened.jpg
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 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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National Portrait Gallery   wikidata:Q1967614
National Portrait Gallery
Native name National Portrait Gallery, Washington
Parent institution Smithsonian Institution
Location
Washington, D.C.
Coordinates 38° 53′ 52″ N, 77° 01′ 23″ W Link to OpenStreetMap Link to Google Maps Edit this at Wikidata
Established 1968
Website www.npg.si.edu
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institution QS:P195,Q1967614
Author
B. D. Maxham  (1821–1899)  wikidata:Q34874385
 
Alternative names
Benjamin D. Maxham; Benjamin Dexter Maxham
Description photographer
Date of birth/death 10 October 1821 Edit this at Wikidata 9 July 1899 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Woodstock Vineland
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