Goldsmith, Alfred Francis, 1881-1947
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1881 - 1947-07-28
Biography
American antiquarian bookseller and owner of Sign of the Sparrow Bookshop in New York City, 1920s.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Lithographic reproduction with corresponding print blocks, 1872
Item
Identifier: 1976.015.2.1-2
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
Publication: 1872
Portrait of Walt Whitman, Undated
Item
Identifier: 1976.015.1.10.3-4
Scope and Contents
Studio portrait of Walt Whitman as a very elderly man. Whitman is pictured seated, with his hand tucked in his coat pocket. Whitman's autograph appears below the image.
On verso, a printed label: With the Season's Greetings, The Oxford Bookshop...[signed] Alfred Goldsmith....One of 30 numbered copies from an original photograph. This is No. 15.
Another copy, No. 26.
Dates:
Undated