WHITMAN WALT Photograph Signed and Inscribed born May 31 18

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WHITMAN, WALT. Photograph Signed and Inscribed, "born May 31 / 1819," image of him in hat and seated by G.F.E. Pearsall. Signed in the image ("1819" written partly on photograph and partly on mount). Approximately 6x4 inches (image), approximately 7 1/2x4 1/2 inches overall; mounted to a larger sheet, minor smudging to initial "W" of signature; matted and framed. [Brooklyn, circa 1872]

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This photograph appeared as a frontispiece to Whitman's book Two Rivulets.