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1882. Potter and Co., Philadelphia. Not in Saunders. Courtesy
Library of Congress. George C. Potter, who took an
early 1870s photograph of Whitman in Washington, had moved to
Philadelphia by this time. This and the following photo bear
some resemblance in posture and expression to the 1880
Gutekunst photo (#69) above. One day Horace Traubel saw one of
these three photos in a glass case in front of the Potter and
Co. studio on Chestnut St., and mistook it for the Gutekunst;
WW corrected him: "there is another with which it gets
confused. The Gutekunst picture is good: the other is not: the
other I think was made by Potter, around on Chestnut Street--
used to be there." Then after a pause: "Have you ever remarked
the difference? The Potter picture is startling but it is not
good--it don't hit me."
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