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Description
A Tichnor Brothers postcard of the Longfellow House in Portland from around 1928. Completed in 1786, the house was the first in Portland to be made entirely of brick. An addition was built in 1815 and the house was given to the Maine Historical Society in 1901 by Anne Longfellow Pierce.
The caption reads, "Longfellow's Home, Portland, Maine."
About This Item
- Title: Longfellow House, Portland, ca. 1928
- Creator: Tichnor Bros., Inc.
- Creation Date: circa 1928
- Subject Date: circa 1928
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Postcard
- Dimensions: 9 cm x 14 cm
- Collection: The Tichnor Brothers Collection
- Object Type: Text and Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Historic buildings--Maine--Portland.
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882--Homes and haunts--Maine--Portland
- Maine Historical Society (Portland, Me.)
- Pierce, Anne Longfellow, 1810-1901--Homes and haunts--Maine--Portland--Photographs
- Postcards--Maine
- Tourism--Maine--Portland
- Wadsworth, Peleg, 1748-1829--Homes and haunts--Maine--Portland
- Wadsworth-Longfellow House (Me.)--Photographs
- Wadsworth-Longfellow House--Exteriors
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