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Date	1863
Place	Washington, D.C.
Photographer	Alexander Gardner
Note	Whitman referred to this as "one of several portraits which William O'Connor called the Hugo portraits" and worried that it was too severe: "do you detect a scowl, a frown, anything bordering on it?" Looking at it another time, Whitman mused, "That was my prime—that was the period of my power—of endurance: the period in which I was most alive." Many sources identify this photograph as 1864, but several copies exist on the unstamped Brady carte-de-visite cards that Gardner used after leaving Brady's studio in fall 1862 and relocating to Washington, D.C. Whitman also identifies another photograph from this session as "taken from life 1863 / war time Washington / D C."
Type	Carte-de-visite
Credit	Alderman Library, University of Virginia
Saunders number	22
ID	Walt Whitman Photograph #012

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