Detail View: Whitman Photographs:
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Date:
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Between February and May, 1848
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Place:
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New Orleans
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Note:
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This daguerreotype was made in New Orleans, during Whitman's residence there between February and May 1848, while he worked on the New Orleans Crescent. For more information on this daguerreotype, see Denise B. Bethel, "Notes on an Early Daguerreotype of Walt Whitman," Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 9 (Winter 1992), 148-153.
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Saunders number:
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Not in Saunders, though in some copies of Saunders, it is glued in and labeled #1.1
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Year1:
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1848
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Year2:
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1848
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Photographer:
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Unknown
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Type:
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Daguerreotype (half plate 5-1/2 x 4-1/4 inches, housed in a mahogany-colored passe-partout mount and gilt wall frame)
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Credit:
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Walt Whitman House, Camden, New Jersey
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Identification (ID):
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Walt Whitman photograph #001
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