Finding Aid
- Album in black mottled limp cloth, 180 x 134 mm. On the front pastedown is written: "Whitman photographs / Compiled by H.S. Saunders, 1912 / This set given to A.E.S. Smythe Esq / October, 1912, with very best wishes. / Other sets similar to this have been made for / Horace Traubel Camden, N.J. / W.H. Trimble New Zealand / C. N. Elliot Portland Oregon / Leon Bazalgette Paris, France / R. M. Mitchell Toronto." On the rear pastedown is an annotated carbon ts. which lists and identifies approximately 404 photos of Whitman. The photos are numbered and pasted onto the album leaves. With a few exceptions the photographs are reproductions from published sources. Two photographs are of R.M. Bucke. Laid in the album is a postcard (May 29, 1913) from Henry and Helen Saunders to Albert and Conn [Smythe].
- Framed photograph, 279 x 202 mm. September 1872, Brooklyn, New York, by G.F.E. Pearsall. Verso of frame "Saunders #36".
- Framed portrait (steel engraving) by S. A. Schoff, 293 x 217 mm. From the frontispiece of Leaves of Grass (1860). Verso of frame "Saunders #11A".
- Framed double photographs (2 juxtaposed photos of Whitman), 348 x 416 mm. ca. 1870-72, by G.F.E. Pearsall, from the frontispiece of Leaves of Grass (1900, p. 241) of Whitman's collected writings. Verso of frame "Saunders #36 Double".
- Framed portrait (woodcut) and title-page of the author's edition of Leaves of Grass (1876), 339 x 418 mm. The woodcut, 1871, by W. J. Linton, after a photograph by G.C. Potter. The woodcut appears in Leaves of Grass (1876, p. 285), and has been reproduced repeatedly in collections of Whitman's writing.
