 |
||||||||
|
||||||||
 |
||||||||
 |
|
 |
Activities: Author Activities Carl Sandburg - Selected Archive Items  Back to Carl Sandburg Activities[4501] Anonymous, Chicago, Looking North from State and Washington Streets (1930), courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration. Some of Carl Sandburg's best-known poems are about his home city, Chicago. Sandburg was at the vanguard of a literary movement that sought to bring poetry to the working class. [4848] Jack Delano, Blue Island, Illinois. Switching a Train with Diesel Switch Engine on the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad (1943), courtesy of the Library of Congress [LC-USW3-026606-E DLC]. The Chicago and Rock Island Rail Road Company was an important line that began operation in 1848. The 1930s saw the rise of a much lighter diesel engine that brought great innovations in both freight trains and stream-lined "lightweight" passenger trains. Trains would come to symbolize both the hopefulness of modernism and the horrors of World War II. [6551] Kenyon Cox, Columbia & Cuba--Magazine Cover--Nude Study (1898), courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division [LC-USZ62-68463]. An allegorical cover of an 1898 magazine, exemplifying the openness toward the human body of the late-nineteenth-century realists. The names of the women, "Columbia" and "Cuba," refer to the imagined relationship of the nations during the Spanish American War. [7110] H. C. White Co., Making Link Sausages--Machines Stuff 10 Ft. per Second (c. 1905), courtesy of the Library of Congress [LC-USZ62-50217]. Photograph of Swift and Company's Chicago packing house. Mechanization and urbanization encouraged some writers' nostalgia for the United States's agricultural past. [8000] Al Ravenna, Carl Sandburg, Head-and-Shoulders Portrait, Facing Left (1955), courtesy of the Library of Congress [LC-USZ62-115064]. Like William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg was deeply influenced by Walt Whitman. He shared Whitman's love of common things and his devotion to Abraham Lincoln and American themes. |
|
 This tool builds multimedia presentations for classrooms or assignments.   An online collection of 3000 artifacts for classroom use.   Download the Instructor Guide PDF for this Unit. |
|
|
|