Carl Sandburg
Photograph
c 1925

Carl Sandburg was a newspaperman, a journalist. He worked in the industry for nearly 20 years, mainy at the Chicago Daily News. A co-worker, Harry Hansen, said, "No man has a keener sense for the significant phrase in homely surroundings than Carl Sandburg. He is always pulling something out of the air almost--something you want to remember, to reflect on, and then telling you that it came from the clerk at your elbow, the elevator man, the woman with the dust-mop. He was never a hair-trigger reporter; he could never get into action quickly and weave a fanciful story; his work required meditation and leisure, often he toiled far into the night and his neatly typewritten manuscript would be found on the editor's desk early the next morning." (Park Handbook, p 80, 83)
Paper. L 25.3, W20.4 cm
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, CARL 7877