Item 22475 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's chair, Cambridge, Massachusetts, ca. 1880
- Item 22475 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's chair, Cambridge, Massachusetts, ca. 1880
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- Item 22475
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Image Info Cambridge, Massachusetts schoolchildren commissioned a chair made from the wood of the spreading chestnut tree, mentioned in Longfellow's poem The Village Blacksmith to give Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on his birthday.
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The poet's nephew, William Pitt Preble Longfellow designed the chair.
