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Edgar Allan Poe: Rhode Island

The History of Poe in Providence

Undated CDV by Coleman of a Charcoal or Crayon Portrait

This Carte de visite of Sarah Helen Whitman was printed by Coleman & Remington in Providence, Rhode Island, ca. 1875–1885, after an earlier portrait (likely a drawing in crayon or charcoal). This particular image has never been made public until now.

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Note for navigating the menu and submenus above: PEOPLE and PLACES marked with an asterisk (*) are directly associated to Poe's time in Providence. Labels without an asterisk are either loosely connected to Poe or exclusively connected to Whitman.

Sources listed below (in no particular order) include but are not limited to:

  • Whitman, Sarah Helen. Sarah Helen Whitman Papers. 1816-1878, John Hay Library, Providence, Rhode Island.
  • Miller, John Carl. Poe's Helen Remembers. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979.
  • https://eapoe.org/index.htm
  • Varner, J. G. (1940) Sarah Helen Whitman Seeress of Providence [Doctoral dissertation, University of Virginia].
  • Ticknor, Caroline. Poe's Helen. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916.
  • Rutherford, Brett. Break Every Bond: Sarah Helen Whitman in Providence: Literary Essays and Selected Poems. Yogh & Thorn Books/The Poet's Press, 2019.
  • The Rhode Island Historical Society https://www.rihs.org/
  • The Providence Public Library https://provlibdigital.org/
  • https://archive.org/
  • Thomas, Dwight and Jackson, David K. The Poe Log. G. K. Hall & Co, 1987.
  • https://www.findagrave.com/
  • https://www.loc.gov/
  • Kunce, Catherine. The Correspondence of Sarah Helen Whitman and Julia Deane Freeman—Writer to Writer, Woman to Woman. University Press Copublishing Division, 2013.

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