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"The Quadroon Girl," 1869

Flyer featuring a photograph of a statue of the head and shoulders of a young woman. The subject is in full profile to viewer's right against a dark background.

Flyer featuring a photograph of A. Van Wart's sculpture of "The Quadroon Girl." The face is in full profile to viewer's right against a dark background. The title and a quotation from the HWL poem is printed below. We keep the title "The Quadroon Girl" because it is the title that was given to the statue and it is the title of the Henry Longfellow poem.
Inscription: "To Mr. Longfellow / with the compliments of / the Sculptor" written in cursive in ink lower right corner of mount. Sculptor's, photographer's, and publishers' names printed in small letters below image.
Notes: C1869 because copyright 1869.

Archives Number: 3007.1/2.3#032

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Photographs Related to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Frances Elizabeth Appleton Longfellow (3007.001), (LONG-Subcollection)
, Photographs Not in Albums (3007.001/002), (LONG-SeriesName)
, Photographs Related to Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (3007.001/002.003), (LONG-SubseriesName)

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Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Code: LONG

Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Latitude: 42.3769989013672, Longitude: -71.1264038085938

NPS Museum Number Catalog : LONG 27886

Longfellow Family Photograph Collection (3007)

Title: Finding Aid for the Longfellow Family Photograph Collection, 1845-1972 (bulk dates 1860-1920)
URL: https://www.nps.gov/long/learn/historyculture/archives.htm#LFP

2016-02-10

01/01/1869 - 12/30/1869

Photograph in Longfellow Family Photograph Collection, Subcollection I. Photographs Related to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Frances Elizabeth Appleton Longfellow, Photographs Not in Albums, Photographs Related to Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (300

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Organization: Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
Address: 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: LONG_archives@nps.gov

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