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Henry Adams seated at desk in dark coat, writing

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Photograph by Marian Hooper Adams, 1883

Album page: 17.4 cm. x 25.5 cm.; photograph: 11.5 cm x 20 cm.

From the Marian Hooper Adams photographs. Photo. 50.71. (Album 8, page 24)

"H.A." written by Marian Hooper Adams


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[ This description is from the project: MHS 225th Anniversary ]

Marian "Clover" Hooper Adams took this image of her husband, historian Henry Adams, in 1883, shortly after she took up photography. Although Clover's work was widely admired, her husband apparently discouraged publication.