Cyclists with Their Bicycles outside Wayside Inn, South Sudbury, Massachusetts, circa 1900

THF119240 / Cyclists with Their Bicycles outside Wayside Inn, South Sudbury, Massachusetts, circa 1900
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Artifact Overview

An 1862 stay at the old Howe Tavern inspired Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's popular poem Tales of a Wayside Inn. For decades, the former stagecoach stop attracted literary fans who nicknamed it Longfellow's Wayside Inn. In 1896, Edward Rivers Lemon purchased the property. He opened the officially renamed Howe Tavern Longfellow's Wayside Inn as a summer retreat for actors, artists, students, and professionals.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

circa 1900

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

84.1.1660.711

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)
Cardboard

Technique

Gelatin silver process
Mounting
Toning (Photography)

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)
Brown

Dimensions

Height: 8 in
Width: 10 in

Cyclists with Their Bicycles outside Wayside Inn, South Sudbury, Massachusetts, circa 1900