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  • Carl Sandburg's daughter Margaret Sandburg
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Margaret Sandburg sitting outside with box in her lap. Box A-19. Negative available. [original size 14.3 x 8.9]
  • Margaret Sandburg and Janet Sandburg with a wagon
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Images were captured using an Epson 1640 XL flatbed scanner and Photoshop 7.0 and 8.0 imaging software. Master images were captured in TIFF format, 24-bit color or 16-bit black-and-white. Image size was 600 DPI for all master images. Master image size ranged from roughly 2.5 MB to 40.0 MB. Images were optimized using Photoshop 5.0. For this project image modification was kept to a minimum. Images were rotated and some borders were cropped to reflect the look of the original piece. Access images were created as JPEGS with minimum compression and sized to 1024x768 pixels.
  • Carl Sandburg at the Assembly Hall dedication and graduation commencement
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Date
    1963
    Description
    Carl Sandburg wearing a graduate gown and glasses, applauding, at the University of Illinois Assembly Hall dedication and graduation commencement. Photograph taken in 1963.
  • Couple walking together at Treasure Island, San Francisco, 1939
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Date
    1939
    Description
    Unidentified tall man and woman with magazine walking together at Treasure Island, San Francisco, 1939.
  • Family photograph
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Group of six people - two men, two women, a young girl, and a young man. Carl Sandburg may be the second person from the right. Otherwise, the people are unidentified.
  • Carl Sandburg with Oliver R. Barrett
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Buchbinder, Robert
    Description
    Carl Sandburg and Oliver R. Barrett, Lincoln collector and close friend of Carl. Photograph by Robert Buchbinder.
  • Carl Sandburg's daughter Janet Sandburg swimming
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Janet Sandburg swimming in lake, wearing a bathing cap. A dock is visible in the background. Box A11. Negative available. [original size 6.3 x 9.0]
  • Janet Sandburg outdoors
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Images were captured using an Epson 1640 XL flatbed scanner and Photoshop 7.0 and 8.0 imaging software. Master images were captured in TIFF format, 24-bit color or 16-bit black-and-white. Image size was 600 DPI for all master images. Master image size ranged from roughly 2.5 MB to 40.0 MB. Images were optimized using Photoshop 5.0. For this project image modification was kept to a minimum. Images were rotated and some borders were cropped to reflect the look of the original piece. Access images were created as JPEGS with minimum compression and sized to 1024x768 pixels.
  • Helga, Janet, and Carl Sandburg
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Date
    1921
    Description
    Helga Sandburg, left, and Janet Sandburg, right, each whispering into one of Carl Sandburg's ears. photograph dated 1921.
  • Large group of people in Puerto Rico
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Images were captured using an Epson 1640 XL flatbed scanner and Photoshop 7.0 and 8.0 imaging software. Master images were captured in TIFF format, 24-bit color or 16-bit black-and-white. Image size was 600 DPI for all master images. Master image size ranged from roughly 2.5 MB to 40.0 MB. Images were optimized using Photoshop 5.0. For this project image modification was kept to a minimum. Images were rotated and some borders were cropped to reflect the look of the original piece. Access images were created as JPEGS with minimum compression and sized to 1024x768 pixels.
  • Edward Steichen and Oma Steichen
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Date
    1916
    Description
    Images were captured using an Epson 1640 XL flatbed scanner and Photoshop 7.0 and 8.0 imaging software. Master images were captured in TIFF format, 24-bit color or 16-bit black-and-white. Image size was 600 DPI for all master images. Master image size ranged from roughly 2.5 MB to 40.0 MB. Images were optimized using Photoshop 5.0. For this project image modification was kept to a minimum. Images were rotated and some borders were cropped to reflect the look of the original piece. Access images were created as JPEGS with minimum compression and sized to 1024x768 pixels.
  • Paula Angle
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Date
    1936
    Description
    Paula Angle, Apr. Four, 1936. Angle is seated on the front steps of a home next to a doll. She is petting a dog.
  • Lory and Jeffrey standing under a tree
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Date
    1948
    Description
    Images were captured using an Epson 1640 XL flatbed scanner and Photoshop 7.0 and 8.0 imaging software. Master images were captured in TIFF format, 24-bit color or 16-bit black-and-white. Image size was 600 DPI for all master images. Master image size ranged from roughly 2.5 MB to 40.0 MB. Images were optimized using Photoshop 5.0. For this project image modification was kept to a minimum. Images were rotated and some borders were cropped to reflect the look of the original piece. Access images were created as JPEGS with minimum compression and sized to 1024x768 pixels.
  • Carl Sandburg receiving a photograph from UNC president
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Date
    1966
    Description
    Carl Sandburg accepting an autographed photograph of himself and President Johnson from University of North Carolina President William C. Friday on occasion of Sandburg's 87th birthday. photograph taken 6 January 1966.
  • Man drawing Carl Sandburg on a poster
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Smith, William A.
    Description
    Unidentified man drawing Carl Sandburg on a poster. The drawing on the poster is the same design as that used for the postage stamp. Photograph by William Smith.
  • Hughston McBain, Joel Goldblatt, and Carl Sandburg at a banquet table
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Date
    1952
    Description
    Images were captured using an Epson 1640 XL flatbed scanner and Photoshop 7.0 and 8.0 imaging software. Master images were captured in TIFF format, 24-bit color or 16-bit black-and-white. Image size was 600 DPI for all master images. Master image size ranged from roughly 2.5 MB to 40.0 MB. Images were optimized using Photoshop 5.0. For this project image modification was kept to a minimum. Images were rotated and some borders were cropped to reflect the look of the original piece. Access images were created as JPEGS with minimum compression and sized to 1024x768 pixels.
  • Carl Sandburg hugging his wife on White House lawn with First Lady Bird Johnson and Mrs. Edward Steichen
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Date
    1964
    Description
    Images were captured using an Epson 1640 XL flatbed scanner and Photoshop 7.0 and 8.0 imaging software. Master images were captured in TIFF format, 24-bit color or 16-bit black-and-white. Image size was 600 DPI for all master images. Master image size ranged from roughly 2.5 MB to 40.0 MB. Images were optimized using Photoshop 5.0. For this project image modification was kept to a minimum. Images were rotated and some borders were cropped to reflect the look of the original piece. Access images were created as JPEGS with minimum compression and sized to 1024x768 pixels.
  • Roger Foster III and a dog poking their heads out a window
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Images were captured using an Epson 1640 XL flatbed scanner and Photoshop 7.0 and 8.0 imaging software. Master images were captured in TIFF format, 24-bit color or 16-bit black-and-white. Image size was 600 DPI for all master images. Master image size ranged from roughly 2.5 MB to 40.0 MB. Images were optimized using Photoshop 5.0. For this project image modification was kept to a minimum. Images were rotated and some borders were cropped to reflect the look of the original piece. Access images were created as JPEGS with minimum compression and sized to 1024x768 pixels.
  • Carl Sandburg talking to four young men in his study at Connemara
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Knapp, Donald F.
    Description
    Carl Sandburg standing in front of bookshelves talking to four other young men at Connemara. Carl is wearing his glasses, a kerchief around his neck, and a vest. Photograph by Donald F. Knapp.
  • Carl Sandburg in Flat Rock on the eve of his 80th birthday
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Date
    1958
    Description
    Carl Sandburg in the study at Connemara on eve of his 80th birthday. A typed caption is at the bottom of the photograph. Carl is smiling and wearing a scarf or kerchief around his neck. photograph dated 5 January 1958.
  • Carl Sandburg and wife with the Steichens, Lady Bird Johnson and unidentified person
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Knudsen, Robert L.
    Date
    1964
    Description
    Carl Sandburg and Lilian Paula Sandburg with Edward Steichen and Joanna Steichen, Lady Bird Johnson, and an unidentified person. "Robert L. Knudsen, The White House" stamped on back. Dated 10 April 1964.
  • Carl Sandburg in a dark suit and golfer's cap
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Date
    1960
    Description
    Carl Sandburg wearing a white cap and suit. Caption reads: "Author Carl Sandburg sports a white cap as he poses at a movie studio where he currently is working as a creative consultant on the movie version of 'The Greatest Story Every Told.' Sandburg is working with director George Stevens on the movie." (AP Wire photograph)
  • Carl Sandburg before Congress with Richard Nixon and Sam Rayburn in background
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Date
    1959
    Description
    Sandburg Before Joint Session…, Carl Sandburg eulogizes Abraham Lincoln before joint session of Congress. Vice President Richard Nixon and House Speaker Sam Rayburn look on in background. Caption of picture is typed on right side. Dated 12 February 1959.
  • Helga Sandburg with Karlen Paula Steichen and John Carl Steichen
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Date
    1944
    Description
    Helga Sandburg holding Karlen Paula Steichen in her lap. John Carl Steichen is playing at her feet. Seated next to Helga is an unidentified older man. The four are on a patio of a house overlooking Lake Michigan in Harbert. photograph dated 7 November 1944.
  • Selected poems
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Date
    1926
    Description
    Verso of B447-005-035. Caption glued to back reads: "Carl Sandburg whose selected poems edited and with an introduction by Rebecca West, has just been published by Harcourt, Brace and Company. This is the first time that a representative volume of his best work has been available." "Sep 30 - 1926" is stamped above the caption.
  • Ethel Smith and Carl Sandburg on Carl's birthday
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Steckler, Leonard
    Date
    1959
    Description
    Carl Sandburg birthday party at Ethel Smith's house on 15 January 1959. Smith, third from the left, is standing next to Carl. To the left of Smith is an ice sculpture of Carl. Photograph by Leonard Steckler.
  • Carl Sandburg visiting the Kenneth Dodson family
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Images were captured using an Epson 1640 XL flatbed scanner and Photoshop 7.0 and 8.0 imaging software. Master images were captured in TIFF format, 24-bit color or 16-bit black-and-white. Image size was 600 DPI for all master images. Master image size ranged from roughly 2.5 MB to 40.0 MB. Images were optimized using Photoshop 5.0. For this project image modification was kept to a minimum. Images were rotated and some borders were cropped to reflect the look of the original piece. Access images were created as JPEGS with minimum compression and sized to 1024x768 pixels.
  • Carl Sandburg and the Federation of Women's Clubs of America
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Date
    1957
    Description
    Associated Press photograph of Carl Sandburg in the middle of a group wearing a suit and bow tie with a caption which reads: "Sandburg hits TV. Poet Carl Sandburg lashed out at TV and the movies last nite before some 3000 members of the federation of womens clubs of America..." photograph dated 1957.
  • Hilda Terry D'Alessio, Olga Steckler, Gregory D'Alessio, and Carl Sandburg
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Steckler, Leonard
    Date
    1961
    Description
    From left to right: Hilda Terry D'Alessio, wife of Gregory D'Alessio, an unidentified man, Carl Sandburg, Olga Steckler, and Gregory D'Alessio. Behind the davenport on which they are seated is a sun-shaped mirror. Photograph by Leonard Steckler in 1961.
  • Carl Sandburg shaking Don McKiernan's hand
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Daley, Bud
    Date
    1943
    Description
    Carl Sandburg shaking Don McKiernan's hand. The two men are surrounded by other men and there is a microphone from BJS in front of them. Carl has a hat and satchel in his left hand. Photograph by Bud Daley and dated 1943.
  • Carl Sandburg warming up his guitar at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Date
    1958
    Description
    Carl Sandburg warming up his guitar at the University of Illinois in Champaign. A typed caption notes that the University celebrated Sandburg's birthday by having him perform and inviting him to dinner with University President and Mrs. David D. Henry. Photograph dated 15 January 1958.
  • Carl Sandburg and wife, with Janet Sandburg and Margaret Sandburg
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Vachon, John
    Date
    1956
    Description
    Carl Sandburg and Lilian Paula Sandburg with Janet Sandburg and Margaret Sandburg in the background, under a painting of Abraham Lincoln. Carl is playing his guitar. Photographer: John Vachon of "Look Magazine". Dated 10 July 1956.
  • Carl Sandburg in a suit for the publicity photograph for Always the Young Strangers
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Smith, William A.
    Description
    Close-up of Carl Sandburg in a suit and tie. A typed caption at the bottom reads, "Carl Sandburg whose book of memories, Always the Young Strangers, is published by Harcourt, Brace. Please credit: Photograph by William A. Smith.
  • A Nation in Tears: 150 Years after Lincoln's Death: An Exhibition Held in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 12...
    Scholarship
    Creator
    • Sears, Dennis J.
    • Hoffmann, John
    • Yestrepsky, Michelle
    Description
    "The sesquicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's assassination and funeral is commemorated by this exhibition. Items include a copy of the initial printing of Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address on March 4, 1865; an uncut copy of the New York Herald of April 15, the first paper to report the President's assassination; an oversize lithograph of Lincoln on his deathbed surrounded by numerous dignitaries; and issues of the National Police Gazette which featured vignettes of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin, and his co-conspirators. ”A Nation in Tears” will also include plaster casts of the President's hands and a piece of the blood-stained pillow slip on which Lincoln's head was laid. In addition, the exhibition will display photographs of ceremonies in cities along the route of the funeral train from Washington, D.C., to Springfield, Illinois, as well as sermons, hymns, and artifacts which document the nation's mourning. The exhibition will open at 3:00 p.m. on February 11 at a meeting of the No. 44 Society, the book collecting club of Champaign-Urbana, in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library (346 Library, 1408 W. Gregory Dr., Urbana). The meeting is open to the public. As items in the exhibition are mainly drawn from the Library's Illinois History and Lincoln Collections. On May 1, at 3:00 p.m. Richard E. Hart, past president of the Abraham Lincoln Association, will close the exhibition with a description of the final ceremonies in Springfield: ""'Bear Him Gently to His Rest': The Funeral of Abraham Lincoln."" The public is invited to this special event which will also take place in The Rare Book & Manuscript Library."
  • Carl Sandburg publicity photograph for "Always the Young Strangers
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Bell, Kay
    Description
    Images were captured using an Epson 1640 XL flatbed scanner and Photoshop 7.0 and 8.0 imaging software. Master images were captured in TIFF format, 24-bit color or 16-bit black-and-white. Image size was 600 DPI for all master images. Master image size ranged from roughly 2.5 MB to 40.0 MB. Images were optimized using Photoshop 5.0. For this project image modification was kept to a minimum. Images were rotated and some borders were cropped to reflect the look of the original piece. Access images were created as JPEGS with minimum compression and sized to 1024x768 pixels.
  • [Prayers and meditations and litany of the saints]
    Digital Rare Book Collection   ·   Digital Special Collections
    Date
    1300
    Description
    Sotheby's, Harmsworth Trust Library: VI. Portion (1945), lot no. 2065
  • Bette Davis and Gary Merrill on the set of "The World of Carl Sandburg
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Bette Davis and Gary Merrill on the set of "The World of Carl Sandburg." Davis is in a gown and pointing up. Merrill is in a suit and looking up.
  • Ethel Smith and Carl Sandburg on Carl's birthday
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Steckler, Leonard
    Description
    Ice sculpture of Carl Sandburg at Ethel Smith's house. Smith, third from the left, is standing next to Carl and gesturing toward the sculpture. Photograph by Leonard Steckler.
  • Ethel Smith and Carl Sandburg singing at a dinner table at the Waldorf Astoria
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Date
    1958
    Description
    Carl Sandburg and Ethel Smith at the Waldorf Astoria eating dinner and singing in 1958.