Mr. Gleason has made a careful study of all Thoreau’s writings, including the manuscript Journal, and has explored with equal thoroughness the woods and fields of Concord, visiting the localities mentioned in the Journal and getting photographs, not only of the places themselves, but also of many of the fleeting phenomena of the natural year in the very spots where Thoreau observed them. He has even succeeded in identifying a number of localities described and named by Thoreau which had previously been unknown to any person now living in Concord. he has also followed Thoreau in his wider wanderings, and his portfolio includes views of Cape Cod, the Maine woods, and the banks of the Merrimack River. It will be apparent that Mr. Gleason’s pictures are in the fullest sense illustrations of the text which they accompany. — Publisher’s Advertisement (The Writings of Henry David Thoreau)
Selected images from The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (1906)
Rowse crayon portrait of Thoreau. Photographer: Herbert Gleason (1855-1937)
Walton Ricketson Bas-Relief of Thoreau. Photographer: Herbert Gleason (1855-1937)
Windmill, Chatham (Cape Cod). Photographer: Herbert Gleason (1855-1937)
Concord Elms. Photographer: Herbert Gleason (1855-1937)
Thoreau Family Graves. Photographer: Herbert Gleason (1855-1937)
Hubbard’s Bridge. Photographer: Herbert Gleason (1855-1937)
Barrett’s Mill. Photographer: Herbert Gleason (1855-1937)
Pitch Pine. Photographer: Herbert Gleason (1855-1937)
Boar Mountain, Maine. Photographer: Herbert Gleason (1855-1937)
Skunk Cabbage. Photographer: Herbert Gleason (1855-1937)
Highland Light, Provincetown (Caoe Cod). Photographer: Herbert Gleason (1855-1937)
Winter statuary. Photographer: Herbert Gleason (1855-1937)
Provincetown (Cape Cod). Photographer: Herbert Gleason (1855-1937)
River Fog. Photographer: Herbert Gleason (1855-1937)
Wellfleet Shore (Cape Cod). Photographer: Herbert Gleason (1855-1937)
Plains of Nauset. Photographer: Herbert Gleason (1855-1937)
Squaw Mountain, Maine. Photographer: Herbert Gleason (1855-1937)
Chatham Harbor (Cape Cod). Photographer: Herbert Gleason (1855-1937)
Old Marlborough Road, Concord. Photographer: Herbert Gleason (1855-1937)
Midwinter. Photographer: Herbert Gleason (1855-1937)
Skunk Cabbage. Photographer: Herbert Gleason (1855-1937)
View from Mount Monadnock. Photographer: Herbert Gleason (1855-1937)
Fairhaven Bay. Photographer: Herbert Gleason (1855-1937)
Snow at Walden Pond. Photographer: Herbert Gleason (1855-1937)
November Woods. Photographer: Herbert Gleason (1855-1937)
Leaning Hemlocks, Concord. Photographer: Herbert Gleason (1855-1937)
Walden Pond. Photographer: Herbert Gleason (1855-1937)
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