Collected materials, 1923-1929.

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Collected materials, 1923-1929.

Artificial collection of Lindsay materials from his years spent in Spokane. Three of Lindsay's illustrated poems are represented, "Babylon" (1926), "Queen of Bubbles" (1929), and "Under Spokane's Brocaded Sun" (1929). Books covers from three of Lindsay's books are included as well as the illustrated birth announcement for his son, Nicholas in 1927.

1 box (.25 linear ft.)

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Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931

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Nicholas Vachel Lindsay was born in Springfield, IL. He studied in Ohio, Chicago, and New York and acquired a reputation as a poet and lecturer. Lindsay became famous for his walk from Springfield, IL to New Mexico in 1912, and for an unusual method of writing poetry. In 1924 he arrived in Spokane where he worked as a columnist for the "Spokesman-Review". He returned to Springfield in 1929, and at the time of his death was a major figure in American poetry. From the description of Co...