About

This digital interactive was developed by Jesse Merandy, Director of Bard Graduate Center’s Digital Media Lab, with his students Lolly Burrows, Taryn Clary, Emma Cormack, Rebecca Merriman, and Bailey Tichenor.

Credits

Support for this project is generously provided by Susan Tane.

Special thank you to Karen Karbiener for her encouragement and guidance,
James Congregane for kiosk design and development,
Julie Carlsen, and Gabriel Mckee for their assistance throughout the project,
Bard Graduate Center for supporting innovative student scholarship,
and the Grolier Club and Jennifer K. Sheehan for welcoming this work into their incredible exhibition space!

Interactive Feature Credits

When I Read the Book: Whitman, Burns & Carnegie
Essay and interactive feature by Taryn Clary

Sources

BBC. “Burns Night.” Accessed March 5, 2018. http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/robertburns/burns_night_running_order.shtml.

Brown, Mary Ellen. “Robert Burns.” Poetry Foundation. Accessed February 22, 2018. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-burns.

Burns, Robert. Poems, Songs and Letters: Being the Complete Works of Robert Burns, Edited from the Best Printed and Manuscript Authorities. London: Macmillan and Co., 1868. Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/poemssongsandle00burngoog.

Griffin, Larry D. “Death of Abraham Lincoln.” The Walt Whitman Archive. Accessed April 8, 2018. https://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/current/encyclopedia/entry_427.html.

“Scots Do Honor to Burns.” The New York Times, January 22, 1888. TimesMachine. https://nyti.ms/2HIuMwg.

Thornhill, John. “The story of Skibo, Andrew Carnegie’s Scottish estate.” Financial Times, September 9, 2014. https://www.ft.com/content/1ccbdfc0-39c6-11e4-83c4-00144feabdc0.

Traubel, Horace. With Walt Whitman in Camden, vol. 2. 1915. The Walt Whitman Archive. https://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/disciples/traubel/WWWiC/2/whole.html.  

Traubel, Horace. With Walt Whitman in Camden, vol. 3. 1915. The Walt Whitman Archive. https://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/disciples/traubel/WWWiC/3/whole.html.

Traubel, Horace. With Walt Whitman in Camden, vol. 9. 1996. The Walt Whitman Archive. https://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/disciples/traubel/WWWiC/9/whole.html.

The Walt Whitman House. “Walt Whitman in Camden.” Accessed April 5, 2018. http://www.state.nj.us/dep/parksandforests/historic/whitman/camden.htm.

“Walt Whitman to Andrew Carnegie, 1 February 1888.” The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library. The Walt Whitman Archive. Accessed March 10, 2018. https://whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/nyp.00696.html.

Walt Whitman and Photography
Essay By Rebecca Merriman
Interactive feature by Jesse Merandy and Rebecca Merriman

Sources

Folsom, Ed. “Photographs and Photographers.” In Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998. https://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/current/encyclopedia/entry_592.html.

Folsom, Ed.  “‘This Heart’s Geography’s Map’: The Photographs of Walt Whitman,” The Walt Whitman Archive. https://whitmanarchive.org/multimedia/gallery/introduction.html.

Stafford, Barbara Maria and Frances Terpak and Isotta Poggi. Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2001.

Traubel, Horace. With Walt Whitman in Camden. Vol. 1. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906.

Image Citations:

Horton, V.W. (photo operator) and Jeremiah Gurney (studio), “Stereograph portrait photograph of Walt Whitman. New York, 1871.,” Poet of the Body: New York’s Walt Whitman: May 15 – July 27, 2019, accessed May 5, 2019, http://gabrielmckee.hosting.nyu.edu/whitman/items/show/25.

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. “Brooklyn Library, Brooklyn, N.Y.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1850 – 1930. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-e2d2-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. “Fulton Street.”The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1850 – 1930. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-e292-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. “Fulton Ferry House.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1850 – 1930. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-1852-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. “Fulton Ferry and Brooklyn, N.Y.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1850 – 1930. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-e2de-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. “Brooklyn ferry boat.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1850 – 1930. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-e306-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. “Bowling Green, foot of Broadway [horse drawn carriages in foreground].” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1860. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-1a44-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. “Broadway from Fulton Street – columns of St. Paul’s Church on the left.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1860. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-1c2a-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. “Broadway, from Barnum’s Museum, looking north.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1860. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-1c3e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a9

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. “Up Broadway from Barnum’s Museum. The City Hall Park on the right.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1860. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-1c44-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. “Broadway from opposite the St. Nicholas hotel, looking north.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1860. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-1c4a-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. “Broadway from the corner of Spring Street, looking south.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1860. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-1c3c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. “Looking down Broadway, from above Howard Street.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1860. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-1c6e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. “Looking up Hudson St., from the corner of Chambers St.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1860 – 591. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-1b70-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. “Broadway on a rainy day.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1860. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-1c84-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Clothing the Body of the Poet
Essay and interactive feature by Emma Cormack

Sources

Folsom, Ed.  “Photographs and Photographers.” In Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998. https://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/current/encyclopedia/entry_592.html

Hill, Daniel Delis. American Menswear: From the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century. Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University Press, 2011.

Krieg, Joann P. A Whitman Chronology. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1998.

Peacock, John, Men’s Fashion: The Complete Sourcebook. London: Thames and Hudson, 1996.

“Photograph of Walt Whitman by G. Frank Pearsall, Brooklyn, probably between 1868 and 1872.” The Walt Whitman Archive. https://whitmanarchive.org/multimedia/image037.html?sort=year&order=ascending&page=4.

“Photograph of Walt Whitman by J.W. Black of Black and Bachelder, Boston, c. 1860.” The Walt Whitman Archive. https://whitmanarchive.org/multimedia/image007.html?sort=year&order=ascending&page=1.

“Photograph of Walt Whitman by J. W. Black or Alexander Gardner, Boston or Washington, DC, early 1860s.” The Walt Whitman Archive. https://whitmanarchive.org/multimedia/image009.html?sort=year&order=ascending&page=1.

“Photograph of Walt Whitman by Matthew Brady, Washington, DC, c. 1867.” The Walt Whitman Archive. https://whitmanarchive.org/multimedia/image024.html?sort=year&order=ascending&page=3.

“Photograph of Walt Whitman by Napoleon Sarony, New York, July 1878.” The Walt Whitman Archive. https://whitmanarchive.org/multimedia/image064.html?sort=year&order=ascending&page=7.

“Photograph of Walt Whitman, perhaps by John Plumbe, Jr., probably New York, between 1848 and 1854.” The Walt Whitman Archive. https://whitmanarchive.org/multimedia/image002.html?sort=year&order=ascending&page=1.

Reynolds, David S. Walt Whitman’s America: A Cultural Biography. New York: Vintage, 1996.

Severa, Joan L., Dressed for the Photographer: Ordinary Americans and Fashion, 1840-1900. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1995.

Wearing Sentiment: Hair on Display
Essay and interactive feature by Lolly Burrows

Sources

“Katherine Johnston to Walt Whitman, 17 December 1888.” The Walt Whitman Archive. Accessed May 4, 2018. https://whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/loc.02585.html.

Loving, Jerome. Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000.

Reynolds, David S. Walt Whitman’s America: A Cultural Biography. New York: Vintage, 1996.

Roberson, Susan L. “Johnston, John H. (1837-1919) and Alma Calder.” The Walt Whitman Archive. Accessed May 4, 2018. https://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/current/encyclopedia/entry_98.html.

Sheumaker, Helen. Love Entwined: The Curious History of Hairwork in America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.

Whitman Ephemera
Essay and interactive feature by Bailey Tichenor

Sources

Densky-Wolff, Lois R. “Bookmarks.” The Ephemera Society of America. Accessed October 25, 2018. http://www.ephemerasociety.org/examples/ex-bookmarks.html.

French, R.W. “Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855 Edition.” Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia. Edited by J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998. Accessed April 27, 2018. The Walt Whitman Archive. https://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/current/encyclopedia/entry_606.html.

Grynbaum, Michael M. “In the City’s Subway, Literary Placards Will Soon Be Mere Echoes in the Memory.” The New York Times. December 20, 2010.

Traubel, Horace. With Walt Whitman in Camden, vol. 5. May 30, 1889. The Walt Whitman Archive.https://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/disciples/traubel/WWWiC/5/med.00005.53.html. 

Traubel, Horace. With Walt Whitman in Camden, vol. 7. December 30, 1890. The Walt Whitman Archive. https://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/disciples/traubel/WWWiC/7/med.00007.178.html. 

Traubel, Horace. With Walt Whitman in Camden, vol. 8. September 24, 1891. The Walt Whitman Archive. https://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/disciples/traubel/WWWiC/8/med.00008.226.html.

Walking Whitman’s Broadway
Video developed by Jesse Merandy and Bailey Tichenor
Essay by Karen Karbiener

Whitman’s America
Essay by Karen Karbiener