Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892

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Correspondence, minor writings, photographs, and ephemera all by or about Walt Whitman.

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Correspondence, minor writings, photographs, and ephemera all by or about Walt Whitman.

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Portrait of Walt Whitman, reproduced for the Walt Whitman Sesquicentennial Commemorative series of postcards; this postcard is No. 5. Caption reads: Walt Whitman as "The Good Gray Poet" after the Civil War.

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Correspondence, minor writings, photographs, and ephemera all by or about Walt Whitman.

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Unused membership registration card. On verso is printed the Fellowship's constitution.

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Correspondence, minor writings, photographs, and ephemera all by or about Walt Whitman.

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Portrait of Walt Whitman, reproduced for the Walt Whitman Sesquicentennial Commemorative series of postcards; this postcard is No. 2 in the series. Caption reads: Walt Whitman in 1854, when he was writing "Leaves of Grass." This is sometimes referred to as the "Christ" photograph.

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Portrait of Walt Whitman, reproduced for the Walt Whitman Sesquicentennial Commemorative series of postcards; this postcard is No. 4. Caption reads: Walt Whitman as he looked in 1863, while he was nursing the sick and wounded soldiers in Washgington. Photograph taken by Brady's studio.

Scope and Contents The Tulsa Bibliophiles, or Tulsa Bibliophile club, was a group of like-minded men including John Ellinghousen, James Gourley, Rush Greenslade, V. J. Houston, John Bennett Shaw, and Edward J. Soph. They were committed to collecting all of the first edition works by Walt Whitman. In February of 1952, Greenslade and the others endowed the first rare book room in the north basement of McFarlin Library to house the Whitman Collection. In May of 1966 the Bibliophiles transferred title to TU of...