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Walt Whitman by William S. Pendleton, ca. 1872

  • Date: ca. 1872
  • Creator(s): Pendleton, William S.
Text:

The New York City Directory lists Pendleton at this address starting in 1869, and advertisements for

Craig's Daguerreian Registry as having a studio at 5 Chatham Square in New York from 1857 through 1860

his imprint with the Chatham Square address, suggesting he may have been there through most of the 1860s

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 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 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 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 and Bill Duckett by Lorenzo F. Fisler of Fisler and Gaubert?, 1886

  • Date: 1886
  • Creator(s): Lorenzo F. Fisler
Text:

There later were troubles with Duckett, but Whitman recalled in 1889 that "he was often with me: we went

to Gloucester together: one trip was to New York: . . . then to Sea Isle City once: I stayed there at

the hotel two or three days—so on: we were quite thick then: thick: when I had money it was as freely

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 and Bill Duckett by Lorenzo F. Fisler of Fisler and Gaubert?, ca. October 1886

  • Date: ca. October 1886
  • Creator(s): Lorenzo F. Fisler
Text:

There later were troubles with Duckett, but Whitman recalled in 1889 that "he was often with me: we went

to Gloucester together: one trip was to New York: . . . then to Sea Isle City once: I stayed there at

the hotel two or three days—so on: we were quite thick then: thick: when I had money it was as freely

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, 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 Unknown, probably Sophia Williams, 1887

  • Date: 1887
  • Creator(s): Williams, Sophia Wells Royce
Text:

Kinder Karr, in "A Friendship and a Photograph: Sophia Williams, Talcott Williams, and Walt Whitman" (American

Both were frequent visitors to Whitman’s Mickle Street home in Camden in the 1880s.

They were friends of Thomas Eakins, who painted both their portraits.

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz, ca. 1865 - 1873

  • Date: ca. 1865 - 1873
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
Text:

The time between the opening of Kurtz’s first studio in New York City in 1865 and the publication of

Robinson, “Laurence Hutton and a Newly Recovered Photograph of Walt Whitman," WWQR, p. 160; Smithsonian American

preconceived notion of what it should be” (With Walt Whitman in Camden, Thursday, May 10, 1888).Most Americans

Walt Whitman by Unknown, ca. early 1860s

  • Date: ca. early 1860s
  • Creator(s): Unknown
Text:

Walt Whitman by Unknown, ca. early 1860s Henry S.

Walt Whitman by John Plumbe Jr.?, ca. 1848–1854

  • Date: ca. 1848–1854
  • Creator(s): Plumbe, John, Jr.
Text:

of slaves / You might have borne deeper slaves— / Doughfaces,” a derisive term for Northerners who were

Nevertheless, be ready, be not weary of watching,He will surely return; his messengers come anon.These were

the first lines ever published of what would later become Leaves of Grass, and they were the last that

anyone would read by Whitman until he dramatically reemerged in 1855 as “an American, one of the roughs

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.

Walt Whitman by W. Curtis Taylor of Broadbent and Taylor, ca. 1877

  • Date: ca. 1877
  • Creator(s): W. Curtis Taylor
Text:

"Yes—that was an actual moth," he told Traubel, "the picture is substantially literal: we were good friends

What is not often noted is that the photo simply enacts one of the recurrent visual emblems in the 1860

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 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 Unknown, Late 1870s or Early 1880s

  • Date: Late 1870s or Early 1880s
  • Creator(s): Unknown
Text:

Black photo in 1860 (zzz.00134) and two photos of Whitman with his friend Bill Duckett, taken in 1886

Walt Whitman by J. C. Tarisse?, ca. 1869

  • Date: ca. 1869
  • Creator(s): Tarisse, J. C.
Text:

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

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 Unknown, ca. February–May, 1848

  • Date: ca. February–May, 1848
  • Creator(s): Unknown
Text:

bilingual newspaper published in Bringier, Louisiana, just upriver from New Orleans, between 1846 and 1860

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 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 Napoleon Sarony, 1878

  • Date: 1878
  • Creator(s): Sarony, Napoleon
Text:

Perhaps the first American “celebrity photographer,” Sarony made much of his money selling portraits

Walt Whitman by Napoleon Sarony, July 6, 1878

  • Date: July 6, 1878
  • Creator(s): Sarony, Napoleon
Text:

Perhaps the first American “celebrity photographer,” Sarony made much of his money selling portraits

Walt Whitman by Napoleon Sarony, July 1878

  • Date: July 1878
  • Creator(s): Sarony, Napoleon
Text:

Perhaps the first American “celebrity photographer,” Sarony made much of his money selling portraits

Walt Whitman by Napoleon Sarony, July 1878

  • Date: July 1878
  • Creator(s): Sarony, Napoleon
Text:

Perhaps the first American “celebrity photographer,” Sarony made much of his money selling portraits

Walt Whitman by Napoleon Sarony, July 1878

  • Date: July 1878
  • Creator(s): Sarony, Napoleon
Text:

Perhaps the first American “celebrity photographer,” Sarony made much of his money selling portraits

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 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

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

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

G. Frank Pearsall?, ca. early 1870s

  • Date: ca. early 1870s
  • Creator(s): Pearsall, G.F.
Text:

1870s Whitman is wearing the same shirt as in two other photographs (zzz.00027 and zzz.00028) that were

Walt Whitman by Unknown, ca. 1889

  • Date: ca. 1889
  • Creator(s): Unknown
Text:

Chicago Albumen Works, Inc., with the assistance of a grant from the Gilder-Lehrmann Institute for American

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 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 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 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

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