[Literature] Markham, Edwin. (1852 - 1940) Large Signed PhotographAttractive signed photograph of the American poet and lecturer who wrote passionately on behalf of the "common man" and who earned national recognition in 1899 when his immensely popular poem of social protest "The Man With the Hoe" was published in the San Francisco Examiner. Original 11 x 14 inch silver gelatin photograph by E. Willard Spurr of Pasadena, signed in the lower blank margin in black ink, Edwin Markham April 10, 1927."