The “Stella” daguerreotype portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, stolen from the archives of the University of Virginia’s Alderman Library in 1973 along with a large number of other rare manuscripts and materials.
Forty-five artifacts with a currently estimated value of over half a million dollars disappeared. The crime was never solved and the materials, including the daguerreotype, remain missing.
Illustrations, mostly by Frank R. Paul, for the second issue of Amazing Stories, May 1926. Authors include Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe,
Book cover by Arthur Rackham, 1935. ‘Tis the season.
Ink illustration for the as-yet-unpublished stories of Edgar Allan Poe. By Alberto Martin. 1905-1909
Grip the Raven, pet of Charles Dickens. Died as a result of ingesting lead paint flakes, 1841. Grip
