COLLECTION NAME:
Whitman Photographs
Record
Date:
Probably the late 1860s
Place:
Unknown, probably New York
Note:
If this photograph is a Kurtz, it must be dated 1865 or later, after Kurtz opened his New York studio. Saunders dates it 1862, and some copies are dated by Whitman in 1863. Whitman wrote, "I confess to myself a perhaps capricious fondness for it."
Saunders number:
19
Year1:
1865
Year2:
1869
Photographer:
Unknown, perhaps William Kurtz, though some copies suggest Mathew Brady
Type:
Print
Credit:
Charles E. Feinberg Collection, Library of Congress
Identification (ID):
Walt Whitman Photograph #028
