Walt Whitman & his rebel soldier friend Pete Doyle, Washington, D.C., 1865 – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Walt Whitman & his rebel soldier friend Pete Doyle, Washington, D.C., 1865, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Walt Whitman & his rebel soldier friend Pete Doyle, Washington, D.C., 1865
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Few pictures in the collection show Whitman with a specific companion, and this one pairs him with Peter Doyle, an Irish-born young man whom the title identifies as a former Confederate soldier. The two met in Washington in the months after the Civil War, and their friendship, documented in letters and echoed in the poems of *Calamus*, was among the most important personal bonds of Whitman's later years. The albumen print on a card mount is one of the Feinberg-Whitman Collection's holdings at the Library of Congress, and it was included in the library's exhibition *Revising Himself: Walt Whitman*. Its informal pose, made in the photographic studios of 1865, offers a rare visual record of the relationship.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on card mount : albumen. |
| Genre | 1840-1918 |
| Notes | Forms part of: Feinberg-Whitman Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: Revising Himself : Walt Whitman" at the Library of Congress |
| Subjects | Whitman, Walt,--1819-1892. Doyle, Peter,--1847- |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,886 × 6,117 px · prints to 16 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-225889 |
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