Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer and Salem's favorite son. Portrait by Charles Osgood.
Collection of the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA.
Hawthorne is wearing a Stock (aka Ascot) collar with a large, soft cravat, and a black cape.
For more info, see:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Hawthorne
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Plummer Hall and the Daland House today house the Phillips Library of the Peabody Essex Museum (art and culture) in downtown Salem, MA. The freestanding stone arch straight ahead leads into the National Park Service's visitor education center, standing on the site of a former armory building. The arch is a historic remnant. The two red brick buildings were built in the mid-19th century, shortly before the Civil War. Plummer Hall first housed the Salem Athenaeum.
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See a nearby image for some history of this great building. . . .
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Main floor, reading room.
Image now appears as a link on the Phillips Library entry on Wikipedia; linked by an admirer--thanks!
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The building entire, or almost so. The library actually fills two houses: the John Tucker Daland House, seen here, (1851), and Plummer Hall, (out of sight to the left). The Daland House was built for a wealthy Salem merchant. Designed by Boston architect Gridley J. F. Bryant, it is one of the finest Italianate houses in New England and was among the last great townhouses built in Salem. Both of these buildings have the tall, narrow windows and heavy brackets supporting the roof that are typical of the Italianate style. Plummer Hall and the Daland House are owned by the Peabody Essex Museum.
For more see:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tucker_Daland_House
This picture has been added to the gallery of images of Phillips Library on Wikipedia, and not by me! Thanks, someone.
I was lucky enough to do research in this building some years ago on George Francis Dow, director of the Essex Institute at the turn of the 20th century. The building still contains the period rooms illustrating early 19th century life that he installed and for which he has earned repute. In a recent upgrade they were saved as examples of museum education a hundred years ago.
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