Walt Whitman Photo History 1848–1892

See the evolution of poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892) in Daguerreotypes and photographs of the famous author (with his fashionable beard and clothing) from the first known image in 1848 when he was 29 years old and working as newspaper editor of Brooklyn Daily Eagle, to his final portrait in 1892 at the age of 72 from his home in Camden, New Jersey.