Whitman and the City:

(For more on Whitman and photography, including photographs of Whitman and an essay by Ed Folsom, visit the Whitman Gallery at The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive)
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1860, Broadway (Taken by E. Anthony & Co. photographers from the balcony of P.T. Barnum's museum).

c. 1866, Broadway (E. Anthony & Co. blow-up provides excellent image of omnibuses, one of Whitman's favorite modes of travel in New York).

1861, return of New York 19th Regiment (E. Anthony).

c. 1866, Broadway (E. Anthony & Co., blow-up provides excellent details of street, omnibuses, architecture, pedestrians).

1860, Union Square and Broadway

c. 1865, Chatham Square and the Bowery

c. 1867, N.Y. Central & Hudson Railroad

c. 1863, Broadway looking north from Barnum's

c. 1869, funeral procession at Chatham Square

c. 1855, stereographic view of Lafayette Place
Photo Credit: Broadway and Duane Street, 1870s; Collection of the New-York Historical Society.

1859, Market and Cherry Street

1872, Union Square

1875, Grand Central Depot

1862, undeveloped, northern Manhattan

1860, Park Row, looking south towards the Times Building, which was completed in 1858, and thus not there when Whitman was in the city in the 1840s. This area was a bustling center of activity, especially at night when the paper was being printed.

1860, Broadway and Chambers, and on the right Stewart's Dry Goods Store, erected in 1845 and so popular that traffic was diverted from Chatham and The Bowery to Chambers.

c. 1867, Mercer Street being paved (E. Anthony & Co.).

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