This volume consists of 101 black and white photographs, most with handwritten labels identifying the photographer and/or subjects (in addition to Whitman). Each image is numbered; numbers are not sequential. The majority of the photographs, dated 1840-1891, are of Walt Whitman alone. The few photographs of Whitman with others were with Peter Doyle, Bill Duckett, Warren "Warry" Fritzinger, and Jeanette and Nigel Cholmeley-Jones.
Statement of responsibility: compiled by Henry S. Saunders.
Content: "This is a selection, from my volume of 'Whitman Portraits,' including all the original photographs I have been able to collect, with a few of the more celebrated paintings, and one statue: that of Jo Davidson recently placed in the New York Worlds Fair grounds. The larger volume contains 325 prints, including photographs, drawings and engravings from them, paintings, busts, plaques, fancy pictures and caricatures, with notes of where they have been published. This book is made entirely by hand, numbered and signed by Henry S. Saunders. This is number ... Copies will be dated when made. First copies made 1939"--Title page verso, handwritten in ink.
Content: Includes "Index of artists, etc."--typed, with handwritten annotations, and laid on lower end leaf.
Ownership: Inscribed, on lower pastedown, in graphite: "F. Mattson rec'd 3/08 from Better World ebay ($420)." NN
Content: Susan Jaffe Tane Collection of Walt Whitman
Physical Description
Extent: 101 photographs on 29 pages : black and white ; 22 cm
