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  Wartime Menu

  This wartime menu depicts Duke dining choices for students during World War II. Rationing of items such as meat, sugar, butter, and canned goods was common. Unemployment during this time was high, while prices and wages were low. A filet mignon steak worth 50 cents would amount to $9.33 in 2024. Specials include the “co-ed special,” a peanut butter, jelly, and lettuce sandwich.

  Tags 1940s, Student Life
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  War Resisters League Women’s Peace Walk Flyer

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  War Resisters League Green End War card

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  War Resisters League Book Mark

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  War Day program, 1942.

  From the Wartime at Duke Collection, 1917-[ongoing].
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  Walton, a migrant laborer and union organizer in a workers' barracks, Glassboro, NJ 1981

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  Walter in Shinka House, a drug rehabilitation half-way house, Honolulu, HI 1981

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  Walt Whitman's Memoranda During the War, 1876

  "Of the present Volume most of its pages are verbatim renderings from such pencillings on the spot…I have perhaps forty such little note-books left, forming a special history of those years, for myself alone, full of associations never to be possibly said or sung. I wish I could convey to the reader the associations that attach to these soil'd and creas'd little livraisons,… Even these days, at the lapse of many years, I can never turn their tiny leaves, or even take one in my hand, without the actual army sights and hot emotions of the time rushing like a river in full tide through me."
  
  From the introduction to Walt Whitman’s memoir of his experiences as a volunteer nurse, Memoranda During the War, 1876. Learn more about Whitman and his works at the Whitman Archive.
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  Walt Whitman. Specimen Days. Philadelphia: R. Welsh & Co., 1882.
  

  In Specimen Days, Whitman describes a New York soldier whose “wound discharg'd much” and whom “diarrhoea had prostrated” as being “very manly and affectionate.” The soldier died several days later. The story is only one of dozens that Whitman chronicled in this text during his days in the hospitals of Washington, D.C., where he comforted many Civil War soldiers and witnessed their untimely deaths.
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  Walt Whitman. Specimen Days. Philadelphia: R. Welsh & Co., 1882.
  

  In Specimen Days, Whitman describes a New York soldier whose “wound discharg'd much” and whom “diarrhoea had prostrated” as being “very manly and affectionate.” The soldier died several days later. The story is only one of dozens that Whitman chronicled in this text during his days in the hospitals of Washington, D.C., where he comforted many Civil War soldiers and witnessed their untimely deaths.
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  Walt Whitman. Leaves of the Grass. Brooklyn, NY: [Walt Whitman], 1855.

  First page.
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  Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. Walt Whitman, 1867.

  Printed first edition to compare to the MS fragment "this compost".
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  Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. New York: [Walt Whitman], 1867.

  In this edition of Leaves of Grass, the phrase, “I Sing the Body Electric” appears for the first time.
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  Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, NY: [Walt Whitman], 1855. Cover.

  Walt Whitman. Leaves of the Grass. Brooklyn, NY: [Walt Whitman], 1855. First Edition.
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  Walt Whitman. Drum-Taps. New York: Walt Whitman, 1865.
  

  This first edition copy of Drum-Taps shows the graphic clarity of Whitman's war poetry, describing how “hard the breathing rattles” in a man wounded with a “stump of the arm.”
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  Walt Whitman. Drum-Taps. New York: Walt Whitman, 1865.
  

  This first edition copy of Drum-Taps shows the graphic clarity of Whitman's war poetry, describing how “hard the breathing rattles” in a man wounded with a “stump of the arm.”
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  Walt Whitman. Daguerreotype reproduction from proof copy of Leaves of Grass.

  Daguerreotype reproduction from proof copy of Leaves of Grass. Walt Whitman Papers, Volume 209 c.1.
  This iconic image of a youthful Walt Whitman appears as the frontispiece for the first edition of Leaves of Grass. Note Whitman’s handwritten note circled in blue pencil: “I own this plate.”
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  Walt Whitman. “Walt Whitman's books…" 1872? Broadside,
  

  This original broadside advertising Whitman’s various writings was possibly designed by Whitman himself.
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  Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860.

  This copy of Leaves of Grass is open to the “Leaf of Faces,” which catalogs the many faces of America. The poem may be evidence of how Whitman's obsession with physiognomy (the pseudoscientific study of faces for evidence of character traits) entered into his poetic work.