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Theodore Parker Daguerreotype
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Daguerreotype by John Adams Whipple, 1852

Oval image 12 cm x 9 cm (half-plate); in case 15 cm x 12 cm

Photo. 1.092


This daguerreotype depicts Theodore Parker (1810-1860). Born in Lexington, Massachusetts, Parker was an American Transcendentalist, reforming minister of the Unitarian church, and abolitionist.