About This Item

  • Call NumberPOST_0168
  • TitleWalt Whitman's homestead
  • SummaryRustic, unpainted, two-story wooden-frame house, set behind picket and slat fences; curving road at left; bare tree in yard in foreground. Caption: "Walt Whitman's homestead. Walt Whitman was born at West Hills May 31, 1819. . . ."
  • Date[189-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 postcard : color w ; 4 x 6 in.
  • Genrepostcards
  • NoteTitle from caption on recto. Retouched in color.
  • PublisherAlbertype Co., Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • SubjectWhitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Homes and haunts ; Wooden-frame houses -- New York (State) -- West Hills ; Historic buildings -- New York (State) -- West Hills
  • CollectionBrooklyn Postcard collection
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • PlaceOther place
  • LocationWest Hills (N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Postcard collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.
  • FolderBrooklyn Postcard collection