River

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Photograph
Paperboard
Concord (Massachusetts)

Dimensions14 × 20.5 cm (5 1/2 × 8 1/16 in.)

Credit LineCourtesy of the Concord Historical Society

Object number2023.17.20

DescriptionPhoto album of 43 loose pages combines photographic images of Concord, Massachusetts with musings on the town history and nature. Each page contains a photograph and a description or saying handwritten below photo. Twentieth page of the album. The black and white photograph at the top of the page depicts the Concord River, or another Concord waterway. Large brush on the right hand edge of the frame. A small structure can be seen in the distance in the upper left corner. The photograph appears to be attached upside down, with the reflection of the river being at the top, and the actual land on the bottom. The page reads, ""Thou in thy narrow banks are pent: / The stream I love unfounded goes / Through flood and sea and firmament; / Through light. Through Life, it forward flows."" ["Two Rivers" poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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