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Medal for the Water Celebration

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  • Title: Medal for the Water Celebration
  • Date: 26 March 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00644
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 26 March 1859: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
  • Contributors to digital file: Elva Moreno Del Rio Kaylen Michaelis Stephanie Blalock Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Medal for the Water Celebration." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 17 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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MEDAL FOR THE WATER CELEBRATION.—

We yesterday were shown the impression of a medal to commemorate the introduction of water in Brooklyn. The obverse presents a figure of Aquarius, with the legend, "Nassau Water Works, Commenced July 31, 1856." The reverse, the Pump House at Ridgewood, with the inscription, "Water introduced Dec. 18, 1858; Celebrated April, 1859." The execution of the work is of the finest description. Indeed this cannot be otherwise, when we know that the artists are Messrs F. B. SMITH and HARTMANN. These gentlemen cut the dies for the Hernden medal, ordered by the State of Virginia, and allowed by all judges to be the rarest piece of art ever done in this country.

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