The Whitman Gallery


Early 1870s. J. Gurney and Son, New York. Saunders #39. Courtesy Alderman Library, University of Virginia. Originally part of a stereoscopic card, the photo has been on occasion incorrectly dated in the 1860s and incorrectly identified as a Brady photo. Whitman said of it, "That picture seems to have been liked--I don't know but I like it myself. William [O'Connor] thought it a trifle weak, but I don't think it so. I can't always be a roaring lion!"
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