The Whitman Gallery


Mid-1860s. William Kurtz, New York. Saunders #13. Courtesy Library of Congress. See previous note. This or one of the following two photos may be the one Whitman described to Horace Traubel as "the Quaker picture: see? the sombrero--the nice adjustment of light and shade." Kurtz was famous for developing methods to photograph shadowed sides of the face.
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