• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his study, circa 1875.

    Longfellow House Washington's Headquarters

    National Historic Site Massachusetts

Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes

  • A daguerreotype from 1852 showing Henry W. Longfellow and his wife Fanny with friends in Newport, RI. From left to right are: Thomas Gold Appleton, John G. Cosler, Julia Ward Howe, Fanny Longfellow, Henry W. Longfellow, and Horatia L. Freeman.
    Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes
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Did You Know?

The Departure of Hiawatha, by Albert Bierstadt, c. 1868.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Song of Hiawatha" was published in 1855.  The name Hiawatha is Iroquois, but most of the stories he drew on for his work were from the Chippewa.