Street
prostitution in New York, 1850
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The
Crystal Palace, New York, 1853
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View
of Manhattan street life, 1855
The
Trapper's Bride (1837); painting by
Alfred
Jacob Miller
Walt Whitman.
c. 1854-55. Engraving by Samuel Hollyer after a daguerreotype by
Gabriel Harrison
This
engraving was printed as the frontespiece to the first edition of Leaves
of Grass in 1855. What are some
of the attitudes and values Whitman seems to want to convey in his pose?
Front
and back covers of the 1860 promotional pamphlet Leaves of
Grass Imprints
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Refer to Walt Whitman's "To a Locomotive in Winter"
Snow Sheds on the Central Pacific
Railroad in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, May 18, 1869. c. 1869. Joseph Becker
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American Express Train. Currier and Ives print
| Thy black cylindric body,
golden brass and silvery steel,
Thy
ponderous side-bars...
Thy
great protruding headlight fix'd in front...
The
dense and murky clouds out-belching from thy smoke-stack...
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The Great West. Currier and Ives print
| Launch'd o'er the prairies
wide, across the lakes,
To
the free skies unpent and glad and strong.
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