Carte de visite photograph.(4 1/4"x 2 1 /2"). Sarony, N.Y. imprint. 
James Russell Lowell (1819-91) This wellborn Bostonian was versatile. He was editor of the Atlantic Monthly, a professor at Harvard, United States minister to Spain and then to England, a literary critic, and a poet.
Pencil id on mount, o/w VG+ condition.