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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Baseball game during World War II
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Hoff, M. M.
    Date
    1943
    Description
    Associated Press photograph of a baseball game during World War II. The photograph was taken during the 4th inning of the Chicago Cubs vs Brooklyn Dodgers game at Ebbets Field on August 19th, 1943. Brooklyn Dodger Billy Herman (16) is safe at second when Chicago Cub Harry Lee "Peanuts" Lowrey (47) juggles Howie Schultz's grounder. Chicago Cub Eddie Stanky (25) points towards the base as an unidentified umpire signals "safe".
  • Carl Sandburg at US Capitol Building with Sam Rayburn and Fred Schwengel
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Date
    1961
    Description
    and others. A full list of those represented are typed at the bottom of the photograph. Dated 4 March 1961.
  • He's safe at the baseball game
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Hoff, M. M.
    Date
    1943
    Description
    Associated Press photograph of a baseball game during World War II. This photograph was taken during the 6th inning of a Chicago Cubs vs Brookyn Dodgers game at Ebbets Field on August 19th, 1943. Brooklyn Dodger Bobby Bragan (15) slides safely into second base as Chicago Cub Harry Lee "Peanuts" Lowrey (47) catches the ball thrown by Chicago Cub Phil Cavarretta on Curt Davis's grounder. An unidentified umpire signals "safe".
  • Baseball during World War II
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Hoff, M. M.
    Date
    1943
    Description
    Associated Press photograph of a baseball game during World War II. This photograph was taken during the 5th inning of the Chicago Cubs vs Brooklyn Dodgers game at Ebbets Field on August 19th, 1943. Brooklyn Dodger Augie Galan (24) slides safely into 3rd on a base hit by Gene Hermanski. Chicago Cub Stu Martin (22) catches the baseball. An unidentified umpire observes the play.
  • Chicago Water Works in 1867, as included in 1961 press release
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Date
    1867
    Description
    Photograph reproduction of a lithograph of the Chicago Water Works originally printed in the January 1867 edition of Chicago Illustrated. In the center of the image is the Chicago Water Tower. Included with the photo is a 1961 press release from the Water Tower Inn for the 92nd anniversary of the tower's completion. According to the press release, the tower was the only municipal building to survive the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The tower is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
  • 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 at a press conference
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Date
    1959
    Description
    Carl Sandburg seated in a chair in Washington, D.C. and turned to face the camera. In the background is a fire in a fireplace. A typed caption above the photograph reads: "Poet Carl Sandburg is shown at a press conference 10/28 at which he said he was a beatnik long before most of the present-day bearded coffee-house types ever got out of diapers. Sandburg, 81, said he anticipated the beatniks for several years and told newsmen that some of his best poems -- among them 'Jazz Fantasia' -- are beatnik." photograph dated 28 October 1959.
  • Carl Sandburg with his neighborhood friends in Galesburg, Illinois
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Date
    1894
    Description
    Standing, from left to right: Frenchie Juneau, Fred Cook, Martin G. Sandburg, Willis Calkins, Oscar F. Larson, Lawrence Futhey, Victor Thoureen, Carl Sandburg
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt during World War II
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Date
    1943
    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.
  • Kenneth Dodson, in his Navy uniform, and Dick Dodson
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Date
    1945
    Description
    Kenneth Dodson, in his Navy uniform, hold the hand of his son, Dick Dodson. The two are standing on a sidewalk on Market Street, San Francisco. photograph dated 25 November 1945. Annotations in Ken's hand.
  • Carl Sandburg being presented with a scroll by the Campfire Girls
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Havoc, June
    Description
    Campfire Girls presenting a scroll to Carl Sandburg. On the right is Hilda Terry, wife of Gregory D'Alessio, in a Native American costume. The young woman in the middle is Stephanie Lange. The photograph was taken by June Havoc, sister of Gypsy Rose Lee.
  • Lloyd D. Lewis, Reverend Andrew Lacy, and Major McFeely
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Date
    1929
    Description
    Left to right: Lloyd D. Lewis, Reverend Andrew Lacy, and Major McFeely. "The picture was taken on the occasion of their annual visit to Mr. Alfred Mac Arthur on his plantation in St. Mary's road, lake County in July of 1929."
  • Carl Sandburg being presented with a scroll by the Campfire Girls
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Havoc, June
    Description
    Campfire Girls presenting a scroll to Carl Sandburg. On the right is Hilda Terry, wife of Gregory D'Alessio, in a Native American costume. The young woman in the middle is Stephanie Lange. The photograph was taken by June Havoc, sister of Gypsy Rose Lee.
  • Carl Sandburg being presented with a scroll by the Campfire Girls
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Havoc, June
    Description
    Campfire Girls presenting a scroll to Carl Sandburg. The photograph is a little grainy. On the right is Hilda Terry, wife of Gregory D'Alessio, in a Native American costume. The young woman in the middle is Stephanie Lange. The photograph was taken by June Havoc, sister of Gypsy Rose Lee.
  • Carl Sandburg in Chicago greeted by Meyer Kestnbaum
    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.
  • World War II
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Ackerman, Michael J.
    Description
    Acme Newspictures photograph of World War II. Lieutenant Chester Braune (right, foreground), receives a message at a regimental control post in a small ravine close behind the lines (near Cesaro, Sicily) while other men (left) study a map. Document describing Michael J. Ackerman's photographs is in enclosure C3-42.
  • Carl Sandburg being presented with a scroll by the Campfire Girls
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Havoc, June
    Description
    Campfire Girls presenting a scroll to Carl Sandburg. On the right is Hilda Terry, wife of Gregory D'Alessio, in a Native American costume. The young woman in the middle is Stephanie Lange. The photograph was taken by June Havoc, sister of Gypsy Rose Lee.
  • Carl Sandburg being presented with a scroll by the Campfire Girls
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Havoc, June
    Description
    Campfire Girls presenting a scroll to Carl Sandburg. On the right is Hilda Terry, wife of Gregory D'Alessio, in a Native American costume. The young woman in the middle is Stephanie Lange. The photograph was taken by June Havoc, sister of Gypsy Rose Lee.
  • World War II
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Acme Newspictures photograph of American Medical Corps men examining and providing first aid to doughboys (American soldiers) injured in a battle in Sicily during World War II. One of the men is examining another's head. A man with a bandaged shoulder is sitting on a litter on the ground. This photograph appears to be of the same group of men as C3-66.
  • Andre Kostelanetz and his wife in Hawaii
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Miyamoto, Masao
    Description
    Andre Kostelanetz and his wife standing outside in Hawaii, looking at a tree that Carl Sandburg and Lilian Paula Sandburg planted. On the back of the photograph, in Carl's writing, is written, "Kostelanetz [sic] [and] his wife at CS tree Univ Hawaii". Photograph by Masao Miyamoto.
  • Carl Sandburg with his neighborhood friends in Galesburg, Illinois
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Seated, from left to right: Charles Bloomgreen, Robert G. Samuelson, Lyle Tapp, George W. Ericson
  • Ceo ditte de husbonderie fist un chivaler sir Walter de Henleye
    RBML Manuscript Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Henley, Walter de
    Date
    1300
    Description
    In Anglo-Norman French; Cursiva Anglicana.
  • Huntington Library
    Sjoerd Koopman Library Postcard Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Union Oil Company
    Date
    2010
    Description
    Henry E. Huntington Library, located on a 200-acre estate in San Marino, California, is surrounded by 50 acres of unusual gardens and rare plants and trees. 150,000 items in its rare book vault and a million manuscripts and letters are available to research workers. Selected manuscripts and rare books are on public display. Famous paintings, including the Blue Boy, hang in the adjacent art gallery.
  • Peter Newton request for payment for preparations at Whitehall relating to the Masque of augurs
    RBML Manuscript Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Newton, Peter
    Date
    1622
    Description
    Body of text on recto of leaf; on verso, parallel to right-hand margin: "Mr. Peter Newton's Bill".
  • Men on trucks moving bags during World War II
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Date
    1943
    Description
    Corp. William I. Godshalk of Bangor, PA