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Title: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1840

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society

Date: 1840

Media: paper

Title: Edna St. Vincent Millay, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society

Date: circa 1940

Media: Black and white photograph

Title: H. W. Longfellow of Cambridge, 1841

Contributed by: Bowdoin College Library

Date: 1841-12-07

Location: Cambridge

Media: Ink on paper

Picturing Henry

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's popularity in the 19th century is reflected by the number of images of him -- in a variety of media -- that were produced and reproduced, some to go with published works of his, but many to be sold to the public on cards and postcards.

Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man and a poet of New England conscience. He was influenced by his ancestry and his Portland boyhood home and experience.

Writing Women

Published women authors with ties to Maine are too numerous to count. They have made their marks in all types of literature.