[The Sphinx, Mount Auburn Cemetery]

[The Sphinx, Mount Auburn Cemetery]

Photograph

Augustus Ephraim Alden

Maker
American, 1837–1914

[The Sphinx, Mount Auburn Cemetery]

ca. 1885
Albumen silver print
Image (each): 3 7/16 × 3 1/4 in. (8.8 × 8.3 cm)
Mount: 3 15/16 × 6 7/8 in. (10 × 17.5 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer, 1951
Inscriptions Inscribed in ink on mount on recto, BR: The Sphinx. Mt. Auburn Cemetery. An Emancipation Monument
Inscribed in pencil on verso, LC: Emancipation Sphinx at Mt. Auburn
Printed on verso, C: A. E. Alden, \ 63 Court Street, Boston. \ Views Made To Order.
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