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Probably 1854. Daguerreotype. Photographer unknown: probably Gabriel Harrison. Saunders #5. Courtesy of the Bayley Collection, Ohio Wesleyan University. Walt Whitman's friend Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke called this "the Christ likeness," and saw signs here of Whitman's illumination, the "moment this carpenter too became seer. . . and he saw and knew the Spirit of God." Bucke believed that "something of this spiritual elevation can still be seen" in this photo. |
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