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[Walt Whitman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, wearing hat] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Walt Whitman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, wearing hat], [1870] — historic photograph
[Walt Whitman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, wearing hat], [1870]. 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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This portrait shows Walt Whitman from the shoulders up, facing the camera and wearing a broad-brimmed hat, which is why it is often called the "Quaker photo." The hat and plain dark clothing suggest the Quaker style of dress, though Whitman was not a Quaker. Made in 1870, when he was 51 and had already published the first edition of *Leaves of Grass*, the image is an albumen print, a process widely used for photographic portraits in the decades after the Civil War. The print is part of the Feinberg-Whitman Collection, assembled by Charles Feinberg, and has been exhibited among the Library of Congress's American treasures.

Created / published[1870]
Medium1 photographic print : albumen.
NotesKnown as the Quaker photo." Forms part of: Feinberg-Whitman Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress. Saunders
SubjectsWhitman, Walt,--1819-1892.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,570 × 6,000 px · prints to 15 × 20 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-154892

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