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September 6, 2012
Second picture of Emily Dickinson found?
"Could you believe me -- without? I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the Wren, and my Hair is bold, like the Chestnut Bur -- and my eyes, like the Sherry in the Glass, that the Guest leaves -- would this do just as well?" -- The History Blog
They shut me up in Prose –
As when a little Girl
They put me in the Closet –
Because they liked me "still" –
Still! Could themself have peeped –
And seen my Brain – go round –
They might as wise have lodged a Bird
For Treason – in the Pound –
-- Emily Dickinson, c. 1862
Posted by gerardvanderleun at September 6, 2012 6:38 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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They are so still in those photographs, because to take a photograph then they had to be still. I have a group photo on my wall, of my mom's family about 1902. My mom's father's face is distorted (he was born in 1900) because he (as small children do) moved.
And here is the amusing thing - in that set-piece photograph from over a hundred years ago I can see a clear resemblance of one great-uncle of mine to my nephew (that would be his great-great uncle).
So strange that after all of these years and all of these people marrying in, that the same look of a young boy from 1902 or thereabouts, can be seen in the school picture of a young boy taken in 2011.*
*I have not got the new portraits for this year.
Posted by: Mikey NTH at September 6, 2012 7:53 PM