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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
Cabin at Walden Pond
Replica of Henry David Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond State Reservation in Concord,...
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Henry David Thoreau
American essayist, poet, and Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; gift of anonymous donor