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Lillian MacDowell portrait, 1878

Back of mount.

Back of a carte-de-visite. Front shows a young girl at three-quarter view to her right. Hair worn in curled bangs over forehead and the rest pulled away from face. High lace collar. Bust-length portrait.
Inscription: "Lilian [sic] Mc Dowell." written in ink by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow upper verso. Photographer's imprint verso includes "H.G. Smith, / Studio Building. / Boston."
Notes: C1875-C1880 because of apparent age of subject (b. C1871). Her mother Katherine Sherwood Bonner MacDowell corresponded with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and helped him with "Poems of Places" (see Wagenknecht, Longfellow, Full-Length Portrait, pp. 280-3.)
Associated Materials: 3007-1-2-2-108 copy negative.

Archives Number: 3007.1/2.2#107

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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 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (3007.001/002.002), (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

2015-06-30

01/01/1878 - 12/30/1878

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 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (3007.001/002

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