John Burroughs Looking across Walden Pond from Thoreau – (Millicent Margaret Fisher Prout) ◄ Previous Next ►

Artist: Millicent Margaret Fisher Prout

Date: 1917

Museum: The Henry Ford (Dearborn, United States)

Technique: Photograph

Naturalist John Burroughs made several visits to Concord, Massachusetts where two of his early literary influences -- Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson -- once resided. In October 1917, Burroughs returned for a brief visit. Burroughs and his traveling companions stopped at Emerson