The Whitman Gallery


Early 1870s. Photographer unknown: probably G. Frank Pearsall, Brooklyn. Saunders #47. Whitman commented on this photo, "It's stiff, a little too much up and down, but a really good likeness I suppose." Whitman went on to tell Horace Traubel (who dated the picture "during the war") that "if you can't call it a picture you may call it a curio."
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