Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892

Numbered keepsake with season's best wishes from Alred Goldsmith. Image features an artist's portrayal of Walt Whitman entitled "Men of the Day", from "The Fifth Avenue Journal". This copy No. 68.

Includes mounted metal print blocks for the image and the text.

Mailing envelope printed with the Walt Whitman's House logo from a woodcut by Egmont Arens; postmarked from Camden, New Jersey; addressed to the Public Library, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Carbon copy of a typed membership roll; handwritten and typed lists of Whitman bibliographical materials; auctioneer and bookseller catalogs, etc.

Admission ticket to a musical program celebrating the 130th anniversary of the birth of Walt Whitman. Held in the Junior Ball Room of the Hotel Walt Whitman. Directed by Professor John Alnmquist and sponsored by the Walt Whitman Foundation.

"...Yes, my friend, I will supply you with some little outdoor sketches...."

An artificial collection containing 45 rpm discs, 78 rpm discs, 10 inch discs, 12 inch discs, thirty-four 33 1/3 rpm discs, and one 10.5" reel mono recording.

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

Printed poems by Walt Whitman include: "A Font of Type"; "To You"; and "O Captain! My Captain!".

Reproduction of a portrait of Walt Whitman. Typed caption on verso reads: From "Lincoln's Camera Man" - (Roy Meredith) NY - 1946 "from unpublished print taken by Brady in National Gallery in the sixties..." (according to Canby 1862).

Reproduction of a portrait of Walt Whitman, originally signed and inscribed by Whitman, which reads: Walt Whitman, taken from life 1863 war time Washington DC. To Horace Traubel from his friend WW, June 1888.