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An archive of objects from the museum collections at Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site that have been previously featured on the site's "Object of the Month" web site.

An 1870 musical arrangement of Henry W. Longfellow's poem "Snow Flakes".

February 02, 2023 Posted by: David R. Daly

Sheet music of Henry W. Longfellow's poem "Snow Flakes" arranged in 1870.

Longfellow, Poetry, poem, SnowFlakes, music

 

Fragment of HMS Somerset

December 01, 2022 Posted by: David R. Daly

A wooden fragment from the British warship HMS Somerset.

Longfellow, PaulRevere, Somerset, ship, Poetry, CapeCod, Gifford

 

Longfellow's Copy of The Compleat Angler

April 30, 2021 Posted by: David R. Daly

Henry W. Longfellow's copy of the fishing treatise "The Compleat Angler".

Book, Longfellow, Fishing, Poetry