Photographs of portraits of Edgar Allan Poe and Sarah Helen Whitmanm 1975.

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Photographs of portraits of Edgar Allan Poe and Sarah Helen Whitmanm 1975.

The portraits were painted by Robert Evans Brock. With the photographs is a copy of an article on the Providence, R.I. daguerreotype studio of S.W. Hartshorn where Poe sat for a portrait in 1848.

2 photos : col. ; 9 x 9 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7637473

University of Virginia. Library

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Doris, Virginia Louise McCullough

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Edgar Allan Poe enthusiast. From the description of Papers of Virginia Doris, 1989. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32958102 ...

Whitman, Sarah Helen Power, 1803-1878

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Sarah Helen Power Whitman (January 19, 1803 – June 27, 1878) was an American poet, essayist, transcendentalist, spiritualist and a romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe. Whitman was born in Providence, Rhode Island on January 19, 1803, exactly six years before Poe's birth. She was the daughter of Nicholas Power. In 1828, she married the poet and writer John Winslow Whitman. John had been co-editor of the Boston Spectator and Ladies' Album, which allowed Sarah to publish some of her poetry usin...

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