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American essayist, poet, and Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.
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Cabin at Walden Pond
Replica of Henry David Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond State Reservation in Concord,...
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Walden Pond on a fall day, Walden Pond State Reservation in Concord, Massachusetts
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Walden Pond in winter, Concord, Massachusetts
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Illustration of the Walden Pond cabin
Henry David Thoreau's cabin, illustration by Thoreau's sister Sophia from the title...
From Walden; or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau, 1854
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Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, portrait by Samuel Worcester Rowse, 1854;...
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