Sometimes it was simply smooth and clear, For the gladness of heaven to shine through, and here-

Sometimes it was simply smooth and clear, For the gladness of heaven to shine through, and here-

Photograph

B.W. Kilburn

Maker
American, 1827–1909

Sometimes it was simply smooth and clear, For the gladness of heaven to shine through, and here-

From Illustration of the Vision of Sir Launfal (Lowell's Poems)


1874
Albumen silver print
Image (each): 2 7/8 × 3 1/16 in. (7.3 × 7.7 cm)
Mount: 3 7/16 × 6 15/16 in. (8.7 × 17.6 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
1981.9398.0003
Inscriptions Printed on mount on recto, LC: Illustration of the Vision of Sir Launfal. \ (From Lowell's Poems.)
Printed on mount on recto, RC: Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1874, by Kilburn Brothers, in the Office \ of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
Printed on mount on recto, BR: 1285. "Sometimes it was simply smooth and clear \ For the gladness of heaven to shine through, and here--"
Printed on verso, C: Photographed and Published by \ Kilburn Brothers, ---- Littleton, N.H.
Inscribed in pencil on verso, RC: 15 MMM[?]
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