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The Bridge on Which Ichabod Crane Met the Headless Horseman

(American, 1830–1895)
about 1861
Medium/TechniqueStereocard, albumen prints mounted to card stock
Credit LineEdward Jackson Holmes Collection—Bequest of Mrs. Edward Jackson Holmes
Accession number65.3238
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPhotographs
Collections
InscriptionsVerso, in ink: "The bridge on which Ichabod Crane met the headless horseman, vide. Washington Irving. Tannin process."
ProvenanceOliver Wendell Holmes (b. 1809 – d. 1894), Boston; by descent to his grandson, Edward Jackson Holmes (b. 1873 – d. 1950), Boston; 1950, bequeathed by Edward Jackson Holmes to his widow, Mary Stacy Beaman Holmes (b. 1875 – d. 1964), Boston; 1965, bequest of Mrs. Holmes to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 1, 2015)
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