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Walt Whitman by Bartlett F. Kenney, 1881

  • Date: 1881
  • Creator(s): Bartlett F. Kenney
Text:

about the book emphasized Whitman’s increasingly conservative stance, and many of the sexual passages were

edition, but the book eventually appeared in November without one.Initial sales of the Osgood edition were

strong, and reviews were almost universally positive.

Walt Whitman by Bartlett F. Kenney, 1881

  • Date: 1881
  • Creator(s): Bartlett F. Kenney
Text:

about the book emphasized Whitman’s increasingly conservative stance, and many of the sexual passages were

edition, but the book eventually appeared in November without one.Initial sales of the Osgood edition were

strong, and reviews were almost universally positive.

Walt Whitman by Bartlett F. Kenney, 1881

  • Date: 1881
  • Creator(s): Bartlett F. Kenney
Text:

about the book emphasized Whitman’s increasingly conservative stance, and many of the sexual passages were

edition, but the book eventually appeared in November without one.Initial sales of the Osgood edition were

strong, and reviews were almost universally positive.

Walt Whitman by Bartlett F. Kenney, 1881

  • Date: 1881
  • Creator(s): Bartlett F. Kenney
Text:

about the book emphasized Whitman’s increasingly conservative stance, and many of the sexual passages were

edition, but the book eventually appeared in November without one.Initial sales of the Osgood edition were

strong, and reviews were almost universally positive.

Walt Whitman by J.W. Black? Alexander Gardner?, ca. early 1860s

  • Date: ca. early 1860s
  • Creator(s): Black, J.W. | Gardner, Alexander
Text:

, ca. early 1860s Library of Congress print of photo, in unknown handwriting on the back, identifies

this as having been taken around 1860 by Mathew Brady.For more information on J.

Walt Whitman by J.W. Black of Black and Batchelder, ca. 1860

  • Date: ca. 1860
  • Creator(s): Black, J.W.
Text:

Black of Black and Batchelder, ca. 1860 This rugged, footloose portrait was taken by James Wallace Black

, of Black & Batchelder, in March 1860, when Whitman was in Boston to oversee the typesetting of his

1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.

the publishing firm of Thayer & Eldridge, who apparently commissioned the photograph to promote the 1860

the basis for the engraving of Whitman that appeared with its review of Leaves of Grass on June 2, 1860

Walt Whitman by J.W. Black of Black and Batchelder, 1860

  • Date: 1860
  • Creator(s): Black, J.W.
Text:

Black of Black and Batchelder, 1860 Writing in 1860 about his trip to Boston, Whitman said to his friend

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz? or Mathew Brady?, ca. late 1860s

  • Date: ca. late 1860s
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William | Brady, Mathew B.
Text:

, ca. late 1860s If this photograph is a Kurtz, it must be dated 1865 or later, after Kurtz opened his

Walt Whitman by Mathew Brady?, ca. early 1870s

  • Date: ca. early 1870s
  • Creator(s): Brady, Mathew B.
Text:

one used in Brady's Washington studio; the "Lincoln chair" was given to Brady by the President in 1860

It had been Lincoln's chair in the House of Representatives before new chairs were installed in 1857,

Walt Whitman by Mathew Brady, ca. 1866

  • Date: ca. 1866
  • Creator(s): Brady, Mathew B.
Text:

Negatives for the other two images were purchased from Brady for the National Archives in 1873.For more

Walt Whitman by George C. Cox, April 15, 1887

  • Date: April 15, 1887
  • Creator(s): Cox, George C. (George Collins)
Text:

Whitman recalls that "six or seven" photos were made during the session, but the poet's friend Jeannette

Gilder, an observer of the session, said there were many more than that: "He must have had twenty pictures

These two photos are the ones Whitman felt were salvageable from the Cox session: "they are not all of

Walt Whitman by George C. Cox, April 15, 1887

  • Date: April 15, 1887
  • Creator(s): Cox, George C. (George Collins)
Text:

Whitman recalls that "six or seven" photos were made during the session, but the poet's friend Jeannette

Gilder, an observer of the session, said there were many more than that: "He must have had twenty pictures

Walt Whitman with Nigel and Catherine Cholmeley-Jones by George C. Cox, April 15, 1887

  • Date: April 15, 1887
  • Creator(s): Cox, George C. (George Collins)
Text:

Whitman recalls that "six or seven" photos were made during the session, but the poet's friend Jeannette

Gilder, an observer of the session, said there were many more than that: "He must have had twenty pictures

Walt Whitman with Nigel and Catherine Cholmeley-Jones by George C. Cox, April 15, 1887

  • Date: April 15, 1887
  • Creator(s): Cox, George C. (George Collins)
Text:

Whitman recalls that "six or seven" photos were made during the session, but the poet's friend Jeannette

Gilder, an observer of the session, said there were many more than that: "He must have had twenty pictures

Walt Whitman with Nigel and Catherine Cholmeley-Jones by George C. Cox, April 15, 1887

  • Date: April 15, 1887
  • Creator(s): Cox, George C. (George Collins)
Text:

Whitman recalls that "six or seven" photos were made during the session, but the poet's friend Jeannette

Gilder, an observer of the session, said there were many more than that: "He must have had twenty pictures

Walt Whitman with Nigel and Catherine Cholmeley-Jones by George C. Cox, April 15, 1887

  • Date: April 15, 1887
  • Creator(s): Cox, George C. (George Collins)
Text:

Whitman recalls that "six or seven" photos were made during the session, but the poet's friend Jeannette

Gilder, an observer of the session, said there were many more than that: "He must have had twenty pictures

Walt Whitman by George C. Cox, April 15, 1887

  • Date: April 15, 1887
  • Creator(s): Cox, George C. (George Collins)
Text:

Whitman recalls that "six or seven" photos were made during the session, but the poet's friend Jeannette

Gilder, an observer of the session, said there were many more than that: "He must have had twenty pictures

These two photos are the ones Whitman felt were salvageable from the Cox session: "they are not all of

Walt Whitman by George C. Cox, April 15, 1887

  • Date: April 15, 1887
  • Creator(s): Cox, George C. (George Collins)
Text:

Whitman recalls that "six or seven" photos were made during the session, but the poet's friend Jeannette

Gilder, an observer of the session, said there were many more than that: "He must have had twenty pictures

Walt Whitman by George C. Cox, April 15, 1887

  • Date: April 15, 1887
  • Creator(s): Cox, George C. (George Collins)
Text:

Whitman recalls that "six or seven" photos were made during the session, but the poet's friend Jeannette

Gilder, an observer of the session, said there were many more than that: "He must have had twenty pictures

Walt Whitman by George C. Cox, April 15, 1887

  • Date: April 15, 1887
  • Creator(s): Cox, George C. (George Collins)
Text:

Whitman recalls that "six or seven" photos were made during the session, but the poet's friend Jeannette

Gilder, an observer of the session, said there were many more than that: "He must have had twenty pictures

Walt Whitman by George C. Cox, April 15, 1887

  • Date: April 15, 1887
  • Creator(s): Cox, George C. (George Collins)
Text:

Whitman recalls that "six or seven" photos were made during the session, but the poet's friend Jeannette

Gilder, an observer of the session, said there were many more than that: "He must have had twenty pictures

Walt Whitman by George C. Cox, April 15, 1887

  • Date: April 15, 1887
  • Creator(s): Cox, George C. (George Collins)
Text:

Whitman recalls that "six or seven" photos were made during the session, but the poet's friend Jeannette

Gilder, an observer of the session, said there were many more than that: "He must have had twenty pictures

Walt Whitman by Dr. John Johnston, 1890

  • Date: 1890
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

July 15, 1890, and that evening photographed Whitman and his favorite nurse, Warren Fritzinger, who were

Walt Whitman and Warren Fritzinger by Dr. John Johnston, 1890

  • Date: 1890
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

Philadelphia to visit Whitman on July 15, 1890, and that evening photographed Whitman and Fritzinger, who were

Walt Whitman and Warren Fritzinger by Dr. John Johnston, 1890

  • Date: 1890
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

Philadelphia to visit Whitman on July 15, 1890, and that evening photographed Whitman and Fritzinger, who were

Walt Whitman by Thomas Eakins, ca. early to mid-1880s

  • Date: ca. early to mid-1880s
  • Creator(s): Eakins, Thomas
Text:

Whitman's 'Calamus' Photographs" in Betsy Erkkila and Jay Grossman, Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American

Walt Whitman by Thomas Eakins? Samuel Murray?, 1891

  • Date: 1891
  • Creator(s): Eakins, Thomas | Murray, Samuel
Text:

Though Murray’s photographs were intended merely as studies, they are especially important because they

Walt Whitman by Thomas Eakins? Samuel Murray?, 1891

  • Date: 1891
  • Creator(s): Eakins, Thomas | Murray, Samuel
Text:

Though Murray’s photographs were intended merely as studies, they are especially important because they

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880

  • Date: Summer 1880
  • Creator(s): Edy Brothers
Text:

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880 This and six other photographs were taken in the summer of

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880

  • Date: Summer 1880
  • Creator(s): Edy Brothers
Text:

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880 This and six other photographs were taken in the summer of

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880

  • Date: Summer 1880
  • Creator(s): Edy Brothers
Text:

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880 This and six other photographs were taken in the summer of

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880

  • Date: Summer 1880
  • Creator(s): Edy Brothers
Text:

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880 This and six other photographs were taken in the summer of

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880

  • Date: Summer 1880
  • Creator(s): Edy Brothers
Text:

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880 This and six other photographs were taken in the summer of

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880

  • Date: Summer 1880
  • Creator(s): Edy Brothers
Text:

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880 This and six other photographs were taken in the summer of

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880

  • Date: Summer 1880
  • Creator(s): Edy Brothers
Text:

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880 This and six other photographs were taken in the summer of

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880

  • Date: Summer 1880
  • Creator(s): Edy Brothers
Text:

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880 This and six other photographs were taken in the summer of

Walt Whitman by Thomas Faris, 1859–1863

  • Date: 1859–1863
  • Creator(s): Faris, Thomas | Faris and Gray
Text:

Hine, who had painted Whitman's portrait in 1860.

talks about a new photo of “the eccentric poet” on display at Root’s Daguerrian Gallery in New York City

his painting of Whitman on this image, which in turn served as the model for Stephen Alonzo Schoff’s 1860

See Ted Genoways, "'Scented herbage of my breast': Whitman's Chest Hair and the Frontispiece to the 1860

Walt Whitman by C. D. Fredricks, ca. early 1870s

  • Date: ca. early 1870s?
  • Creator(s): Fredricks, Charles DeForest
Text:

is the only known surviving photograph taken by Fredricks, though Traubel’s comments suggest there were

Walt Whitman by V.W. Horton(?) of J. Gurney and Son, 1871

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Horton, V.W. | Gurney & Son
Text:

Gurney and Son, 1871 Whitman dates this picture to about 1865, but Gurney & Son were at 707 Broadway

Walt Whitman by V.W. Horton(?) of J. Gurney and Son, 1871

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Horton, V.W. | Gurney & Son
Text:

Johnston, including the 1854 Gabriel Harrison daguerreotype and the 1860 painting by Charles W.

Walt Whitman by V.W. Horton of J. Gurney and Son, 1871

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Horton, V.W. | Gurney & Son
Text:

Stereoscopes were invented before photography (the original ones used drawn landscapes), but they increased

Walt Whitman by Frederick Gutekunst, 1889

  • Date: 1889
  • Creator(s): Gutekunst, Frederick
Text:

that except for the photographs taken by Eakins and his assistants in Whitman's room in 1891, these were

the last photographs taken of Whitman by a professional photographer, and certainly they were the last

Walt Whitman by Frederick Gutekunst, 1889

  • Date: 1889
  • Creator(s): Gutekunst, Frederick
Text:

Walt Whitman by Frederick Gutekunst, 1889 Whitman commented that the photos from this sitting were all

Eakins-O'Donovan. . . . in Walt's own room in November 1891, the Gutekunst sittings, of which this is one result, were

Walt Whitman by Samuel Hollyer, engraving of a daguerreotype by Gabriel Harrison (original lost), 1854

  • Date: July 1854
  • Creator(s): Hollyer, Samuel | Harrison, Gabriel
Text:

Readers were used to formal portraits of authors, usually in frock coats and ties.

Very often they were posed at reading tables with books spread open before them or holding a thick volume

Walt Whitman by Stephen Alonzo Schoff after an oil portrait by Charles W. Hine, 1860

  • Date: 1860
  • Creator(s): Schoff, Stephan Alonzo | Hine, Charles W.
Text:

Hine, 1860 Whitman called this engraving, which he used as the frontispiece for the 1860 edition of Leaves

See Ted Genoways, "'Scented herbage of my breast': Whitman's Chest Hair and the Frontispiece to the 1860

Walt Whitman by Jacob Spieler at the Charles H. Spieler Studio, ca. 1876

  • Date: ca. 1876
  • Creator(s): Jacob Spieler
Text:

Italian curls—or the semblance of 'em" (Saturday, October 13th, 1888), and he was relieved when they were

Walt Whitman by William Kuebler, Jr.?, Louis Kuebler?, ca. 1889

  • Date: ca. 1889
  • Creator(s): Kuebler, William, Jr. | Kuebler, Louis | Kuebler Photography
Text:

According to the 1890 Philadelphia city directory, William, Jr. lived at 864 41st Street, and Louis lived

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz?, ca. late 1860s

  • Date: ca. late 1860s
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
Text:

, ca. late 1860s This photo is often dated 1861, but it appears to be later, and it would seem to be

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz, ca. late 1860s

  • Date: ca. late 1860s
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
Text:

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz, ca. late 1860s This photo is usually dated 1860, but Kurtz did not open

Library of Congress copy is endorsed by WW: "Walt Whitman 1869" (which Henry Saunders misread as "1860

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz?, ca. late 1860s

  • Date: ca. late 1860s
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
Text:

, ca. late 1860s Kurtz's "Rembrandt" style of light and shadow is suggested here.

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