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Description: Susan Jaffe Tane is a philanthropist and collector of Walt Whitman manuscripts, photographs, books, periodicals, and ephemera. The collection chronicles Whitman's legacy through manuscripts, photographs, music scores, sound and video recordings, ephemera, and LGBTQ-related materials associated with Whitman's life and poetry.
Names: Tane, Susan Jaffe (Creator); Gould, Elizabeth Porter, 1848-1906 (Contributor); Mattson, Francis O. (Contributor); O'Connor, William Douglas, 1832-1889 (Contributor); Perry, Bliss, 1860-1954 (Contributor); Traubel, Horace, 1858-1919 (Contributor); Berg Collection (Contributor)
Dates / Origin: Date Created: 1842 - 2012
Library locations: Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature; Shelf locator: Berg Coll MSS 186048
Topics: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; American poetry -- New York (State) -- New York; Free verse; Journalists -- United States; LGBT community centers; Poets, American -- 19th century; Sexual minorities; Poets
Genres: Ephemera; Documents; Photographs; Scores
Notes: Biographical/historical: Walt Whitman (born 1819 in Huntington, Long Island) was a well-known 19th-century American poet, essayist, and journalist. He grew up and spent much of his career in Brooklyn, New York. Whitman's famous poetry collection, Leaves of Grass (1855, 1891-1892), was continuously expanded, revised, and republished during his lifetime. The collection celebrated the body, soul, nature, and democracy. During the Civil War, Whitman worked as a government clerk in Washington, D. C., and nursed wounded soldiers. Those experiences influenced his poetry collection, Drum-Taps (1865). Whitman's widely recognized poems, "O Captain! My Captain!" (1865) and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" (1865), addressed the death of President Lincoln. Whitman died in Camden, New Jersey in 1892. Susan Jaffe Tane is a philanthropist and collector of Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, and Walt Whitman manuscripts, photographs, books, and periodicals. Tane is the former vice president of Utensco, a manufacturing company. Francis O. Mattson (1931-2013) was a Walt Whitman collector and a former curator of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature at the New York Public Library. For more than fifty years, Mattson assembled a large collection of Whitman manuscripts; books; periodicals; photographs; broadsides; criticism; audio and video recordings; sheet music; and LGBTQ-related books, periodicals, and ephemera.; Content: The collection, dating from 1842 to 2012, contains materials compiled by Susan Jaffe Tane that relate to or were created by, Walt Whitman. Except for some photographs, the materials were initially collected by Francis O. Mattson and are associated with Whitman's life and poetry. The bulk of the collection, dating from the 1950s to the 1990s, holds music scores and binders of ephemera from events inspired by Whitman's life and poetry. The rest of the collection is composed of manuscripts, postcards, photographs, a radio script, journal and newspaper clippings, sound and video recordings, and LGBTQ-related materials created by, or about, Whitman. The collection is arranged into four Series: Photographs, Manuscripts and Related Material; Affiliated Scores and Recordings; Associated Ephemera; and LGBTQ-related Materials.
Physical Description: Extent: 7.17 linear feet (19 boxes)
Type of Resource: Text
Identifiers: Other local Identifier: Berg Coll MSS 186048; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b22806676; MSS Unit ID: 186048; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 11b9ff10-e88d-013c-e40a-0242ac110002

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