Portrait of Walt Whitman at seventy

Archive record

1 photograph : sixth-plate orotone ; 13.7 x 12.2 cm (case)

About this photograph

This sixth-plate orotone portrait is catalogued as showing Walt Whitman at seventy in 1880, created by Edy Bros. The photograph measures 13.7 by 12.2 centimeters in its case.

No verified information is available about the photographer Edy Bros or the circumstances of this portrait sitting. The cataloguing date of 1880 would place Whitman at age sixty-one rather than seventy, suggesting uncertainty about either the date or the stated age. Without additional documentation, the specific occasion and location of the photograph remain unknown.

Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.

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