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The song of Hiawatha

Illustrator Frederic Remington American
1891
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  • Title: The song of Hiawatha
  • Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (American, Portland, Maine 1807–1882 Cambridge, Massachusetts)
  • Illustrator: Frederic Remington (American, Canton, New York 1861–1909 Ridgefield, Connecticut)
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
  • Date: 1891
  • Geography: New York, New York
  • Dimensions: xviii, 242 pages : frontispiece (portrait), illustrations, plates ; Height: 9 7/16 in. (24 cm)
  • Credit Line: Gift of Friends of the Thomas J. Watson Library
  • Object Number: PS2267 .A1 1891
  • Curatorial Department: Thomas J. Watson Library

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