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