Download or read book Authorized Images: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow written by Greg Gatenby and published by Greg Gatenby Books. This book was released on 2024-11-18 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authorized Images: Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: American postcard publishers were generally very good in honouring their nation's most celebrated authors by providing buyers with a plethora of picture postcards featuring busts of the writers or images of their homes or other views somehow related to their lives and careers. This was especially true of Longfellow who is represented in this volume by almost 300 different cards. The exception was Emily Dickinson who, being a famous recluse, was almost invisible from the postcard world. The examples in this book are the only ones known related to her from the pioneering decades of postcards.