The following are a collection of photographs taken by Alfred W. Hosmer (1851-1903) in Concord, Massachusetts, of sites relating to Henry David Thoreau. These were sent to Lewis C. Dawes (1863-1936) in the 1890s.
Thoreau’s Birthplace
Fairhaven Cliffs
Conantum looking from Baker Farm across Fairhaven Bay
Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) at Great Meadows, Concord
Minot House (Concord)
The Old Manse
The Old Marlborough Road
Brister’s Spring
Cairn and site of Thoreau’s Walden house
1861 Dunshee Ambrotype of Thoreau (Alfred Hosmer’s copy)
Thoreau-Alcott House, Main Street, Concord
Thoreau Family Graves
(Sleepy Hollow, Concord)
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Thoreau quotation
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.—Journal, 30 August 1856
