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Notes on an Early Daguerreotype of Walt Whitman

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Offers evidence that the well-known early daguerreotype of Whitman frequently cited as the poet's earliest known photograph "was not taken in New York, but in New Orleans, and thus can be dated precisely to that period of February to May, 1848."

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How to Cite: Bethel, D. B. (1992) “Notes on an Early Daguerreotype of Walt Whitman”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. 9(3). doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1327