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Theodore Parker

Theodore Parker Daguerreotype
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Daguerreotype by John Adams Whipple, 1852

oval image 12 cm x 9 cm; in case 15 cm x 12 cm

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

Theodore Parker was an American Transcendentalist, reformer, abolitionist, and Unitarian minister whose speeches later inspired Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. This daguerreotype of Parker was taken in 1852 by John Adams Whipple, one of the most prolific early photographers in Massachusetts.