Ted Malone Collection

A head shot of Vachel Lindsay from his left side. He wears a dark necktie with a tie pin, a vest, and a suit jacket.

Vachel Lindsay Federal-style home in Springfield, Illinois.

From their back, two white women sit high in the air in the seat of the "Parachute Jump" at Steeplechase Park overlooking the immense crowds on the boardwalk and on Coney Island beach in New York.

Joaquin Miller Park.

Walt Whitman's shabby house at 330 Mickle St., Camden, New Jersey. A two-story row house with louvered shutters on the second story and solid shutters on the first story windows. A plaque centered...

Walt Whitman's shabby house at 330 Mickle St., Camden, New Jersey. A two-story row house with louvered shutters on the second story and solid shutters on the first story windows. A plaque centered...

Walt Whitman's tomb in Harleigh Cemetery in Camden, New Jersey is dug into the side of a hill, has a large triangular name stone on top with an opening braced by three large, heavy square-cut stones...

The exterior of the "The Wayside", home at different times to Nathanial Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott and Margaret Sidney, Concord, Massachusetts.

A weathered unidentified clapboard, two-story house with gabled roofs over each section. It has a small front porch, windows with no shutters, and a rough picket fence spanning part of the yard.

The exterior of the Wesselhoeft Water-Cure in Brattleboro, Vermont where many celebrities, including Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, went to receive hydrotherapy. Dr. Robert...

Air holes in the "House of Fun" blow up a smiling white woman's dress as she holds a prize doll in her right arm at Steeplechase Park, Coney Island, New York. A white man in a suit and hat looks down...

William Vaughn Moody's birthplace in Spencer, Indiana has a screened-in porch across most of the front and a street lamp across the sidewalk. Two cars are parked at a diagonal on the street. Three...

An unidentified white woman squints in the sun as she stands outside wearing button earrings, a beaded necklace and a coat.

An unidentified white woman wearing glasses, a bead necklace, and a corsage stands on the porch of Poe Cottage holding what is likely a book of the complete works of Poe under her left arm.

A white workman bends down wearing a ball cap and smoking a cigar as he operates a chain saw already partially in the tree being cut down as the Rockefeller Center's 1953 choice for a Christmas tree...

Four workers (white men) prepare the Rockefeller Center's 1953 choice for a Christmas tree, a Norway spruce near Morristown, New Jersey, by tying up for branches preparing it for transport.

Three workmen (two white, one African American) stand on the ground to help to anchor the Rockefeller Center's 1953 choice for a Christmas tree, a Norway spruce, to a crane. An unidentified white...

A group of workers have their backs to the photographer as they watch a crane get ready to support the Rockefeller Center's 1953 choice for a Christmas tree, a Norway spruce near Morristown, New...

A mother with a baby zebra stand under a tree at the Bronx Zoo in New York, New York.

Zeiss Projector in the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

The Zeiss projector with three spotlights beaming behind it in the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

A white male zookeeper is milking a Jersey cow as a little white girl and a white woman, both in dresses, look on, at the Bronx Zoo's Farm-in-the-Zoo. A Guernsey cow's head is on the left side of the...