Walt Whitman library, Undated
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 the Whitman Library. Included in the library was the complete set of the thirteen woodcut illustrations used in the 1924 edition of Song of the Broad-axe by Walt Whitman, published by Centaur Press in Philadelphia. Each woodcut is titled and numbered 16 . The titles are (as they appear in the book): No.I, Ship struck in storm, Beauty of woodmen, building, the forger, hell of war, The great city, of the best-bodied mothers, the hammers-men, the headsman, solid forest, the liquor-bar, and No.II.
Dates
- Creation: Undated
Creator
- Tulsa Bibliophiles (Organization)
Access
This material is open for research use by any registered reader.
Use and Copyright
This material is owned by the University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections. Unpublished manuscripts are under copyright. Therefore, permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from both the repository and the copyright holder.
Extent
0.1 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Subject
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 (Person)
Source
- Ellinghausen, John G. (Former owner, Person)
- Greenslade, Rush, 1885-1963 (Former owner, Person)
- Shaw, John Bennett, 1913-1994 (Former owner, Person)
- Houston, V. J. (Volney Jackson), 1899-1971 (Former owner, Person)
- Title
- Walt Whitman library, Undated
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- 2016-08
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives Repository
McFarlin Library
University of Tulsa
2933 E. 6th St
Tulsa 74104-3123 USA
(918) 631-2496
speccoll@utulsa.edu