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Date
Probably 1876
Place
Philadelphia
Photographer
Jacob Spieler at the Charles H. Spieler Studio
Note
Whitman wrote on a package containing this and the previous photo, "some good ones (may-be the best I have of all or any)." Whitman described the photo as "Spieler's 3/4 face, open neck, the 'Lear'," and the name "Lear photo" has persisted (Whitman's friend Mary Costelloe gave it that name, and Whitman and his friends approved). Whitman's dress here echoes his "nightshirt" dress in the Gardner portraits nearly twenty years earlier. In 1888 Samuel Hollyer, who over thirty years earlier had made the famous 1854 engraving of the daguerreotype that served as the frontispiece for the 1855 <i>Leaves,
Date
Probably 1876
Place
Philadelphia
Photographer
Jacob Spieler at the Charles H. Spieler Studio
Note
These are two of three photographs taken by Jacob Spieler as studies for Sidney H. Morse's bust of Whitman. On September 7, Morse paid a week's rent for an "extemporized studio" at 1223 Chestnut St. in Philadelphia. Morse later wrote: "One part of the preliminary business was the visit to a photographer. [Whitman] knew of one who could be 'bossed.' He climbed the flights easily enough, but the heat under the skylight was oppressive. He doffed his coat and sat in his shirt sleeves. A profile of him taken at that sitting shows him looking very old." The Spieler Studio was at 722 Chestnut—and is entered in the <i>Daybooks and Notebooks
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