Albert Johannsen to Walt Whitman, 22 March 1890

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Albert Johannsen (1871–1962) was a geologist and illustrator, and taught at the University of Chicago from 1909 until his retirement on 1937. Johannsen studied at the University of Illinois and the University of Utah and later received a PhD in petrography from Johns Hopkins University. While at Utah, Johannsen worked as an illustrator for the Salt Lake City Herald and a topographer for the Salt Lake City Engineering Department. He is the author of eight textbooks and over forty papers on mineralogy and geology. Johannsen was also a prolific collector of nickel and dime novels, with a collection of over 4,500, and is the author of The House of Beadle and Adams and Its Dime and Nickel Novels (1950) and Phiz: Illustrations from the Novels of Charles Dickens (1956) ("Geologist's Rites Today," The Tampa Tribune [January 13, 1962], 9; "Geologist Johannsen Dies at 90," The Orlando Sentinel [January 12, 1962], 30).