Library of Congress says: Walt Whitman, half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly left, wearing hat, hands in pockets.
Walt Whitman Archive says: Of this image, Horace Traubel recalled: “W. gave me a Broadway picture of himself: ‘How do you like that for free and easy?’ Laughing mildly. ‘Some of the fellows in Washington said no—they wouldn’t have it on any terms: they said to me: “you like to make yourself look tough.” One fellow said: “You do all you can to encourage the people in their belief that you are a tough.” Is that the picture of a tough? Maybe I am not sensitive—maybe I am a tough—maybe the people who don’t like toughs, don’t like me, are right.’ He called my attention to the dent in the hat. ‘Somebody once called it a sauce-pan—said I wore sauce-pan hats'” (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Thursday, June 7, 1888).
Saunders no. 26.
