Edgar Allan Poe, June 1849. Daguerreotype "Annie", given to Poe's friend Mrs. Annie L. Richmond; probably taken in June 1849 in Lowell, Massachusetts, photographer unknown.

Scope and content: Drawing made from the “Ultima Thule” daguerreotype

Drawing made from the “Ultima Thule” daguerreotype

A portrait from the Welsh Portrait Collection at the National Library of Wales. Depicted person: Edgar Allan Poe – American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)

Drawing made from the “Ultima Thule” daguerreotype

Print; Prints

Photographic portrait of Edgar Allan Poe from a carte de visite produced in Brady's Gallery, based on a modified version of the "Ultima Thule" daguerreotype.

The infamous first obituary on Edgar Allan Poe, published in the New York Daily Tribune, 9 October 1849, two days after the author’s death and delusively signed “LUDWIG” (aka Rufus Wilmot Griswold). For full text, check this site.

Scan of the frontispiece of An American Anthology (1787-1900) by Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Pictured: center: William Cullen Bryant; clockwise from top: Poe, Whitman, Holmes, Lanier, Lowell, Whittier, Longfellow.

Title: Lieut. Edgar Allen Poe, 7/8/24 Abstract/medium: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress) Physical description: 1 negative :