"Mother come back from that echoless shore. Take me again to your arms as of yore."

"Mother come back from that echoless shore. Take me again to your arms as of yore."

Photograph

B.W. Kilburn

Maker
American, 1827–1909

"Mother come back from that echoless shore. Take me again to your arms as of yore."

1899
Albumen silver print
Image: 7.7 x 7.7 cm (3 1/16 x 3 1/16 in.)
Mount: 8.8 x 17.7 cm (3 7/16 x 6 15/16 in.)
Purchase with funds from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, 2010
2010.1309.0029
Inscriptions recto (printed in black ink): JAMES M. DAVIS / New York, St. Louis, Liverpool, Toronto, Sydney. / Copyright 1899, by B.W. Kilburn. / 12901. "Mother come back from that echoless shore. Take me / again to your arms as of yore."
verso (printed in black ink): Photographed and Published by / B. W. KILBURN = Littleton, N.H.
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