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Description
Dining room of the Samuel Stephenson (1775-ca.1821) home on Fore and Hancock streets in Portland.
Captain Samuel Stephenson, brother-in-law of Stephen Longfellow, invited Zilpah and Stephen to stay in his home in 1806 when Stephenson was away on business.
The Longfellows' second son, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was born at this house.
About This Item
- Title: Longfellow's birthplace, Portland, ca. 1902
- Creator: Lamson
- Creation Date: circa 1902
- Subject Date: circa 1902
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Glass Negative
- Dimensions: 20 cm x 25 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 200, Box 2/5
- Collection: Wadsworth family glass plate negatives
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Dining rooms
- Dwellings--Maine--Portland
- Historic buildings--Maine--Portland
- Houses--Maine--Portland
- Interiors
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882--Birthplace
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882--Homes and haunts--Maine--Portland
- Stephenson, Samuel, 1775-ca.1821--Homes and haunts--Maine--Portland
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