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Charles Sheeler
Walt Whitman Books, Manuscripts and Photographs in the Oscar Lion Collection of the New York Public Library
1944
Gelatin silver print.
7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (19.1 x 24.1 cm)
Signed and dated in pencil on the mount.
Full-Cataloguing
In 1944 Sheeler was commissioned by Fortune magazine to create a group of still life photographs, each pertaining to nineteenth-century American cultural figures. This photograph is from that series.