The collection consists of black and white photographs of the birthplace of walt whitman taken by photographer benjamin s. Conklin in the middle of the 20th century. Additionally, there is a manuscript from walt whitman featuring a draft of his famous poem, thick sprinkled bunting. Items in the series range from bookmarks, brochures, flyers, and photographs of whitman's birthplace to a condition book from the 1962 walt whitman stakes. The series includes mattson's notes on whitman and reflects his collecting efforts.
The whitman gallery contains digitized facsimiles of all of the known photographs of walt whitman. Commentary is available for each image. For organizational purposes, the images have been grouped within decades. Faris, thomas | faris and gray format: Photographic print | digital image | print From the early 1840s (within a couple of years after the daguerreotype process first came to america) until within a year of his death, whitman sat for photographers, collected and commented on the results, admired certain poses and disliked others, had hundreds of copies. Susan jaffe tane is a philanthropist and collector of walt whitman manuscripts, photographs, books, periodicals, and ephemera. The collection chronicles whitman's legacy through manuscripts, photographs, music scores, sound and video recordings, ephemera, and lgbtq.
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