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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

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