COLLECTION NAME:
Whitman Photographs
Record
Date:
Between February and May, 1848
Place:
New Orleans
Note:
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.
Saunders number:
Not in Saunders, though in some copies of Saunders, it is glued in and labeled #1.1
Year1:
1848
Year2:
1848
Photographer:
Unknown
Type:
Daguerreotype (half plate 5-1/2 x 4-1/4 inches, housed in a mahogany-colored passe-partout mount and gilt wall frame)
Credit:
Walt Whitman House, Camden, New Jersey
Identification (ID):
Walt Whitman photograph #001
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