Millbrook

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

Credit LineCourtesy of the Concord Historical Society

Object number2023.17.3

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. Third page of the album. The black and white photograph at top of the page depicts the Millbrook, a large elm tree stands in the center. In the distance on the left center side a house can be seen. Page reads, "Going to work(?), "Millbrook" knows not an / idle town. Howing through long wide meadows, cool, clear, wispy(?), / it seeks the shade of overarching elms and willows and pans / between grassy banks, a typical New England brook. / Emerson often walked beside it, part of his / land was watered by it./ In days of long ago his children with / those of Alcott and Hawthorne, sailed their boats on the / swiftly moving waters. Don't(?) live in it/ Meadow larks and Bobolinks build their nests near it."