Three 2.5 x 4 carte-de-visite photographs of 19th-century New England authors, including: a bust portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Warren of Cambridgeport; a three-quarter-length seated portrait of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., by Case & Getchell of Boston; and an oval portrait of William Cullen Bryant by an anonymous studio. In fine condition, with various ink and pencil identification notations in unknown hands.
