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  • Carl Sandburg at a press conference
    Image | 1959 | Carl Sandburg CollectionCarl Sandburg seated in a chair in Washington, D.C. and turned to face the camera. In the background is a fire in a fireplace. A typed caption above the photograph reads: "Poet Carl Sandburg is shown at a press conference 10/28 at which he said he was a beatnik long before most of the present-day bearded coffee-house types ever got out of diapers. Sandburg, 81, said he a...
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