Walt Whitman, 1819-1892 – Historic Reproduction
(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 rare historic photograph captures Walt Whitman, 1819-1892 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Walt Whitman, 1819-1892
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Walt Whitman appears in a portrait dated around 1887, when the poet was in his late sixties and living in Camden, New Jersey, after a stroke in 1873 had left him partly disabled. The photograph is credited to G.C. Cox on a caption card, and the record notes that those details are unverified. By then Whitman had revised *Leaves of Grass* through many editions, and his bearded, weathered look became the familiar public image of the American poet.
| Created / published | c1887. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photo by G.C. Cox. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Photog. I.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,218 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-146719 |
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