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