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1871. Henry Ulke and Brothers, Washington, D.C. Saunders #34. Courtesy
Ohio Wesleyan University, Bayley Collection. Whitman
spoke of people's reaction to this photo, "Some of them say my
face there has a rogue in it. [William] O'Connor called it my
sea-captain face. Some newspaper got hold of a copy of the
photograph and said it bore out the notion that Walt Whitman
was a sensualist. I offered one to a woman in Washington. She
said she'd rather have a picture that had more love in it.
It's a little rough and tumble, but it's not a face I could
hate."
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