Harper's and the Calamus Poems

Harper's Weekly newspaper, May 5, 1860, for the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass debuting the Calamus poems

Walt Whitman, 1871

Carte de visite photograph of Walt Whitman, 1871

Berdache

Print of “Dance to the Berdashe” by George Catlin from the 1903 edition of his North American Indians. Written 1832-1839.

A.E. Dickinson

Advertisement showing Anna Dickinson

Anthony and Stanton, circa 1871

Photograph, circa 1871, of suffrage-leaders Susan B. Anthony and white-haired Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Riding for Life

Illustration from Sarah Emma Edmonds' Civil War memoirs, 1865

Sarah Edmonds, 1965

Illustration from Sarah Emma Edmonds' Civil War memoirs, 1865

Nurse and Spy in the Union Army

Title page from Sarah Emma Edmonds' Civil War memoirs, 1865

California Miners, 1891

Print from the article “Pioneer Mining in California” in The Century Magazine, May 1891

Civil War Soldier

Civil War soldier carte de visite photograph, taken during 1861-1865

Fredrick Douglass, 1855

Frontis portrait of Frederick Douglass from his autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom. Part I. Life as a Slave. Part II. Life as a Freeman.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1855

Rose Cleveland, 1885

Frontis portrait of Rose Elizabeth Cleveland from George Eliot's Poetry and Other Studies by Rose Elizabeth Cleveland; New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1885

The Port Folio

A copy of the journal, The Port Folio, 1803, edited by Joseph Dennie.

The Daily Graphic, 1882.01.19

Front-page caricature of Oscar Wilde from New York’s The Daily Graphic newspaper, January 19, 1882. Caption under the drawing states: "Boston Aestheticism Versus Oscar Wilde. The Old Lady of Beacon Hill--'No, Sir. Shoddy New York may…

Oscar Wilde, 1882

Albumen photograph of Oscar Wilde, 1882

Tintype

Torney

Back of Leighton and Sturgeon Photo

Notes on the back of the 1889 photo of Jack Leighton and Ted Sturgeon dressed as women

Leighton and Sturgeon, 1889

Photo: Jack Leighton and Ted Sturgeon, 1889

Kertbeny, 1880

Partial translation: [Hungarian poet] Petofi’s Death Thirty Years Ago in 1849…Historical-Literary Data and Discoveries Compiled by K.M. Kertbeny, 1880