Hiawatha's Photographing

1857, from the Jupiter Books edition of The Illustrated Lewis Carroll 1978
Lewis Carroll
Original and purchase price unknown
Hardcover in good shape except for missing jacket and a few food stains
This poem a B-

While definitely one of Carroll's minor works, in both length and quality, I like it for two of the same reasons I like Humphry Clinker.  It shows how family members can react to the same situation in very different ways, and it captures a particular moment in social history.  Portrait photography was very new in the late 1850s, yet Hiawatha's subjects have each worked out a particular pose and style.  As you can guess from the title, this poem follows the meter of "The Song of Hiawatha."