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Description
In 1894, Anne Longfellow Pierce, who lived in the Wadsworth-Longfellow House on Congress Street in Portland, added running water to her kitchen, but she never furnished the house with a bathroom or water closet.
In order to take a bath, the family used this tin tub that could be filled with buckets of water.
The house, where Anne and her siblings grew up, was built by her grandfather Peleg Wadsworth in 1785-1786.
About This Item
- Title: Longfellow washtub, Portland, ca. 1860
- Creation Date: circa 1860
- Subject Date: circa 1860
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Seamed tin
- Dimensions: 26 cm x 117 cm
- Local Code: A90-142
- Object Type: Physical Object
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Wadsworth-Longfellow House (Portland, Me.)
- Wadsworth, Peleg, 1748-1829--Homes and haunts--Maine--Portland
- Washtubs
- Pierce, Anne Longfellow, 1810-1901--Associated objects
- Containers
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882--Homes and haunts--Maine--Portland
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Maine Historical Society485 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
(207) 774-1822 x230
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