Walt Whitman home in Camden, New Jersey

Description

Walt Whitman's shabby house at 330 Mickle St., Camden, New Jersey. A two-story row house with louvered shutters on the second story and solid shutters on the first story windows. A plaque centered just below the first story windows is blacked out and illegible in this photograph.

Note

1939 (air date)Handwritten on the back, "Walt Whitman House 330 Micle St. Chamden N.J. Photograph by Joseph Praissman - Whitman Book Shop -- " Stamped on back, "WHITEMAN BOOK SHOP 114 NORTH BROADWAY CAMDEN, N.J." Typewritten note attached to the back, "The Walt Whitman House in Camden, New Jersey … final refuge of "the good gray poet's" last slow years."

Contributors

Photographer: Praissman, Joseph

Date Issued

1939-11-19

Type

Image

Extent

1 photograph : black and white print ; 26 x 21 cm

Genre

Gelatin silver prints

Architectural photographs

Member of

Ted Malone Collection

Publisher

Whitman Bookshop

Time Period

1931-1940

Subject (Name)

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892

Subject (Topical)

Poets

American--Homes and haunts

Dwellings

Subject (Geographic)

Camden (N.J.)

Rights

Copyright Not Evaluated

Rights Note

Items in this collection may be freely viewed, searched, and displayed for research and educational purposes. Permission is required for publication, distribution, or other uses beyond viewing and searching, whether in print or electronic formats.

To request permission, please email LaBudde Special Collections.

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Collection Identifier: MS-0187

Source

Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.

Unit

LaBudde Special Collections