Hawthorne’s desk: A wooden desk used by Nathaniel Hawthorne of Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts. He was a popular American novelist and short story writer. From a nineteenth century travelogue of the United States of America, published in 1891, this is a photograph of one of a number of engravings (many by Edward Whymper) used to illustrate aspects of the social history, architecture, topography and geography of the USA.

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Size: 4114px × 5000px
Location: Salem, United States
Photo credit: © Preserving Printed Matter Matters / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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