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[Display of books and memorabilia of Walt Whitman, in window of The Old Corner Book Store] – Vintage Print

[Display of books and memorabilia of Walt Whitman, in window of The Old Corner Book Store], [between 1897 and 1899] — historic photograph
[Display of books and memorabilia of Walt Whitman, in window of The Old Corner Book Store], [between 1897 and 1899]. Historic photograph from the Books & Writers collection.

(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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A shop window full of Walt Whitman books and keepsakes at the Old Corner Book Store in Boston makes this picture unusual among views of the poet's afterlife. The store, on Washington Street, had long been a gathering place for Boston's literary circle, and Emerson, Hawthorne, and Longfellow were among the writers who spent time there. The display dates from the late 1890s, several years after Whitman's death in 1892, when his reputation was growing and his admirers were keeping his memory alive. The mounted cabinet card, a popular format of the period, was made by a Boston photographer working on Tremont Street.

Created / published[between 1897 and 1899]
Medium1 photographic print on cabinet card.
GenrePhotographic prints 1890-1900.
NotesDate based on photographer's address: 446 Tremont St., Boston, Mass. Feinberg-Whitman Collection.
SubjectsWhitman, Walt,--1819-1892--Associated objects. Window displays--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,283 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-186240

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