Carriage outside Wayside Inn, South Sudbury, Massachusetts, 1884-1890

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Artifact Overview

An 1862 stay at the old Howe Tavern in Sudbury, Massachusetts, inspired Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's popular poem Tales of a Wayside Inn. The former stagecoach stop continued to operate as a boarding house but soon began to attract tourists. Literary fans and curious travelers arrived eager to experience what they called "Longfellow's Wayside Inn" for themselves.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Date Made

1884-1890

Subject Date

1884-1890

Creator Notes

Photographed by George H. Van Norman, Waltham, Massachusetts.

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

84.1.1660.1349

Credit

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

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process
Toning (Photography)

Color

Brown

Dimensions

Height: 5.25 in
Width: 8.5 in

Carriage outside Wayside Inn, South Sudbury, Massachusetts, 1884-1890