Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman in 1848
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The image reproduces a daguerreotype (photographer unknown) that was made in New Orleans, during Whitman's residence there between February and May, 1848, while he worked on the New Orleans Crescent. Reproducing the daguerreotype is courtesy Walt Whitman House, Camden, NJ.

• New York, New York
• Mannahatta
• Michael Cunningham

(A Life in Books)