Photos from 1912 of some of the members of the Providence Amateur Press Club 1914-1916, of which H.P. Lovecraft was a member…
Victor L. Basinet.
Caroline Miller.
John T. Dunn.
Eugenie M. Kern.
Frederick A. Byland.
Photos of Providence Amateur Press Club members, 1912
10 Friday May 2013
Posted in Historical context, New discoveries
I tried hard to find a photograph of Eugenie Kern when I did the research for my monograph “The Providence Amateur Press Club: 1914-1916” in 2008, but didn’t turn up a thing. Now you’ve discovered some fascinating photographs of the Club members. Congratulations! In German, Eugene is the female form of the male name Eugen, and Eugenie Kern did use Eugene Kern when she was a member of the Club. That’s why there has been some confusion about her sex. She spent her career as a teacher and never married as far as I was able to discover. Some of the Club members were quite long-lived: Dunn until 1983, Kern until 1977, Miller (married name Barlow) until 1979. As far as I know Dunn was the only member ever to be interviewed about Lovecraft (by L. Sprague de Camp). He was employed as a plumber when he was a member of the Club, then went to prison for resisting the draft during World War I. He later became a Roman Catholic priest.
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