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[Walt Whitman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, wearing hat] – Historic Photograph Print

[Walt Whitman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, wearing hat], 1863 — historic photograph
[Walt Whitman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, wearing hat], 1863. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Walt Whitman appears here in a head-and-shoulders study, turned to the right and wearing a hat, a pose that differs from the more formal frontal likenesses that made him familiar to readers. The photograph dates to 1863, a year when Whitman was in Washington, D.C., tending wounded soldiers in the army hospitals while he worked on the poems that would appear in later editions of *Leaves of Grass*. The print belongs to the Feinberg-Whitman Collection at the Library of Congress, where it is catalogued as Saunders no. 19, and it was later shown in the National Portrait Gallery's 2006 exhibition *One Life: Walt Whitman*.

Created / published1863
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1860-1870.Photographic prints 1860-1870.
NotesFeinberg-Whitman Collection (Library of Congress). Saunders, no. 19 Exhibited: One Life: Walt Whitman, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 2006.
SubjectsWhitman, Walt,--1819-1892.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,162 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-161349

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