Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Walt Whitman as a Nurse in the Civil War Made in United States, North and Central Americac. 1861-64 (negative); c. 1950-55 (print) Print by Ansel Adams, American, 1902 - 1984. Negative by Mathew B. Brady, American, 1823 - 1896. Gelatin silver print Currently not on view 1997-146-130 From the Collection of Dorothy Norman, 1997 |
LabelBrady took this portrait during the years Walt Whitman served as a volunteer wound dresser in the hospitals of Washington, D.C., during the Civil War. Whitman's writings about his visits were published in a New York newspaper in December 1864, where he wrote that "the magnetic flood of sympathy and friendship . . . does, in its way, more good than all the medicine in the world."Social Tags [?]ansel adams [x] nhd 1877 to 1900 photo portrait [x] portrait [x] walt whitman [x] [Add Your Own Tags] |
