Printing House Square, New York

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1865 chromolithograph of Printing-House Square. NYPL Digital Gallery.

Although we are concerning ourselves in this collection with Whitman’s Brooklyn, it would seem incomplete – conspicuous in its absence, even – to neglect the familiar scene that was just across the river, the one into which nearly every disembarking passenger from the Fulton Ferry emerged, and within which Whitman himself was deeply immersed in ways both personal and professional. The nature and character of Brooklyn itself is also strongly bound up in the contrast with and reflection of New York, such that a visual context is illuminating.

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