Early 1860s. J.W. Black, Black and Batchelder, Boston (same clothes as previous photo). Not in Saunders. Courtesy Bayley Collection, Ohio Wesleyan University. Writing in 1860 about his trip to Boston, Whitman said, "I create an immense sensation in Washington street. Everybody here is so like everybody else--and I am Walt Whitman!--Yankee curosity and cuteness, for once, is thoroughly stumped, confounded, petrified, made desperate." J. W. Black's gallery was on Washington Street, known as the "photography row" of Boston. | |
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