Longfellow Garden wall, Portland, ca. 1936

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.

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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

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Longfellow Garden Club
c/o Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
(207) 774-1822 x217

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