| Date: | Between February and May, 1848 |
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| Place: | New Orleans |
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| Photographer: | Unknown |
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| 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. |
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| Type: | 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: | Walt Whitman House, Camden, New Jersey |
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| ID: | 001 |
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