Walt Whitman’s birthday was yesterday. Happy belated!
Melville House pieced together pictures of Whitman’s notebooks and some of his best “come-hither” glamour shots, all taken from Library of Congress’s massive collection and The Walt Whitman Archive. There’s even a wax recording of Whitman reading “America”, one of his later poems, with a choo-choo-train-like accompaniment.
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