Contributed by Longfellow Garden Club
Description
The wall separating the Longfellow Garden on Congress Street in Portland from adjoining tenement buildings on Brown Street is shown in a hand-painted lantern slide.
Gladys Pratt of the American Museum of Natural History in New York painted a number of lantern slides of the garden that the Longfellow Garden Club used when it gave presentations about the Wadsworth-Longfellow House and garden.
About This Item
- Title: Longfellow Garden wall, Portland, ca. 1936
- Creation Date: circa 1936
- Subject Date: circa 1936
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Lantern slide
- Local Code: Coll. 1936 Box 21 #59
- Collection: Longfellow Garden Club records at Maine Historical Society
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Historic Gardens--Maine--Portland
- Longfellow Garden Club
- Wadsworth-Longfellow House (Portland, Me.)
- Longfellow Garden (Portland, Me.)--Photographs
- Historic buildings--Maine--Portland
For more information about this item, contact:
Longfellow Garden Clubc/o Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
(207) 774-1822 x217
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