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Date
July 1854
Place
New York
Photographer
Samuel Hollyer of a daguerreotype by Gabriel Harrison (original lost)
Note
Of the day the original daguerreotype was taken, Whitman remembered, "I was sauntering along the street: the day was hot: I was dressed just as you see me there. A friend of mine—Gabriel Harrison (you know him? ah! yes!—he has always been a good friend!)—stood at the door of his place looking at the passers-by. He cried out to me at once: 'Old man!—old man!—come here: come right up stairs with me this minute'—and when he noticed that I hesitated cried still more emphatically: 'Do come: come: I'm dying for something to do.' This picture was the result." The job of engraving the image for the 1855 frontispiece was given to Samuel Hollyer, who wrote, "the order was given to McRae but as he was not a stipple engraver (but a mezzotint one) he turned it over to me, and I had several sittings from Walt Whitman as it was taken from a daguerrotype [sic] and was difficult to work from." Though the image portrayed him as he was that summer day, Whitman later worried it sent the wrong message, "The worst thing about this is, that I look so damned flamboyant—as if I was hurling bolts at somebody—full of mad oaths—saying defiantly, to hell with you!" He also worried about the portrait because "Many people think the dominant quality in Harrison's picture is its sadness," but he nevertheless liked the portrait "because it is natural, honest, easy: as spontaneous as you are, as I am, this instant, as we talk together." Whitman guessed that at the time of this portrait he weighed "about a hundred and sixty-five or thereabouts: I formerly lacked in flesh, though I was not thin. . . ." The engraving appeared in the 1855 and 1856 editions of <i>Leaves of Grass,
Author
[Black, Adam & Charles, Hall, Sidney, Hughes, William]
Note
Engraved. Counties shown by tinting.
Author
Lange, Henry, 1821-1893.
Note
Engraved map. Borders hand col. Shows roads, canals, railroads, etc. Relief shown by hachures. Scale of inset map (ca. 1:260,000)
Author
Dripps, Matthew
Note
Not listed by Haskell, but similar to 1005, on the same scale. Probably one of Dripps' first New York City pocket maps. Haskell lists none that are before 1854, only Dripps' larger wall maps of the city, the first of which was published in 1851. Also similar to Haskell 1010 of 1855 - same scale (1 inch = 1800 feet) and size but with the title changed to "Map of the Cities of New York, Brooklyn & Jersey City". All three of these maps are from the same mother map. Map is folded into black stamped cloth covers 13x9 with "Dripps' Map Of New York." in gilt.
Author
Dripps, Matthew
Note
Not listed by Haskell, but similar to 1005, on the same scale. Probably one of Dripps' first New York City pocket maps. Haskell lists none that are before 1854, only Dripps' larger wall maps of the city, the first of which was published in 1851. Also similar to Haskell 1010 of 1855 - same scale (1 inch = 1800 feet) and size but with the title changed to "Map of the Cities of New York, Brooklyn & Jersey City". All three of these maps are from the same mother map. Map is folded into black stamped cloth covers 13x9 with "Dripps' Map Of New York." in gilt.
Author
Magnus, Charles
Note
With a beautiful view of Niagara Falls. It would be interesting to know who drew Magnus' maps - typically there is no engraver credit given. See the Map of the United States of 1854 for a similar style of map drawing. Full color by county. Covers are brown cloth 15x10 with "Map Of The State Of New-York." decoratively embossed in gold. Includes explanatory remarks. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian is Washington, D.C.
Author
[Bartholomew, John, Black, Adam & Charles]
Note
States outlined in color. Land tinted. Inset of New York City.
Author
[Bache, A. D., Hassler, F. R.]
Note
Engraved nautical chart. Relief shown by hachures; depths by soundings. Includes 4 coastal views and notes. Covers Lower Manhattan, Brooklyn, Jersey City, New York Bay, Raritan Bay, Sandy Hook, Newark Bay, South Oyster Bay, Hempstead Bay, Staten Island, etc. In upper margin "Presented under authority of an act of Congress of the United States of June 3d 1844 by direction of the Treasury Department, A.D. Bache Superintendent Coast Survey." Prime meridians: Greenwich and New York.
Author
[Bache, A. D., Hassler, F. R.]
Note
Engraved nautical chart. Relief shown by hachures; depths by soundings. Shows streets, buildings, orchards, etc. Includes sailing directions and descriptive notes. In upper margin "Presented under authority of an act of Congress of the United States of June 3d 1844 by direction of the Treasury Department, A.D. Bache Superintendent Coast Survey."
Author
[Bache, A. D., Hassler, F. R.]
Note
Engraved nautical chart. Relief shown by hachures; depths by soundings. Includes sailing directions and descriptive notes. In upper margin "Presented under authority of an act of Congress of the United States of June 3d 1844 by direction of the Treasury Department, A.D. Bache Superintendent Coast Survey." Sachem's Head Harbor at 1:10,000 scale. "Harbor of refuge no."
Author
[Bache, A. D., Hassler, F. R.]
Note
Engraved nautical chart. Relief shown by hachures; depths by soundings. Includes tide and sailing direction notes. "Harbors of refuge no." In upper margin "Presented under authority of an act of Congress of the United States of June 3d 1844 by direction of the Treasury Department, A.D. Bache Superintendent Coast Survey."
Author
[Bache, A. D., Hassler, F. R.]
Note
Engraved nautical chart. Relief shown by hachures; depths by soundings. Includes sailing directions. At head of title "Harbor of refuge no." In upper margin "Presented under authority of an act of Congress of the United States of June 3d 1844 by direction of the Treasury Department, A.D. Bache Superintendent Coast Survey."
Author
[Bache, A. D., Hassler, F. R.]
Note
Engraved nautical chart. Relief shown by hachures; depths by soundings. Includes tide and sailing direction notes. In upper margin "Presented under authority of an act of Congress of the United States of June 3d 1844 by direction of the Treasury Department, A.D. Bache Superintendent Coast Survey."
Author
[Bache, A. D., Hassler, F. R.]
Note
Engraved nautical chart. Relief shown by hachures; depths by soundings. Includes sailing directions and descriptive notes. In upper margin "Presented under authority of an act of Congress of the United States of June 3d 1844 by direction of the Treasury Department, A.D. Bache Superintendent Coast Survey."
Author
[Bache, A. D., Hassler, F. R.]
Note
Engraved nautical chart. Relief shown by hachures; depths by soundings. Includes 6 coastal views and 5 sections. Also sailing directions and descriptive notes. In upper margin "Presented under authority of an act of Congress of the United States of June 3d 1844 by direction of the Treasury Department, A.D. Bache Superintendent Coast Survey."
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