Children's Gate, Longfellow Garden, Portland, ca. 1930
Contributed by Longfellow Garden Club
Item 12034
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Description
The Children's Gate in the Longfellow Garden behind the Wadsworth-Longfellow House on Congress Street in Portland, as it was in the 1930s.
Anne Longfellow Pierce, the sister of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, bequeathed the house and grounds -- their childhood home -- to the Maine Historical Society in 1901 to preserve the memory of her brother.
Other Information
- Title: Children's Gate, Longfellow Garden, Portland, ca. 1930
- Creation Date: circa 1930
- Subject Date: circa 1930
- Town: Portland
- County: Cumberland
- State: ME
- Media: Lantern slide
- Local Code: Coll. 1936, Box 21, #52
- Collection: Longfellow Garden Club
- Object Type: Image
For more information about this item, contact:
Longfellow Garden Club
Location: 489 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
(207) 772-8542
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LC Subject Headings
Longfellow Garden Club
Historic buildings--Maine--Portland
Wadsworth-Longfellow House (Portland, Me.)
Children's Gate (Longfellow Garden, Portland, Me.)--Photographs
Historic Gardens--Maine--Portland
Gates
Longfellow Garden (Portland, Me.)--Photographs
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