Vintage portrait of American poet, essayist and journalist Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892). Steel engraving circa 1854 by Samuel Hollyer, based on a lost daguerreotype by Gabriel Harrison. Image used as frontispiece in the 1855 first edition of Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” poetry collection.

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