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On Fellow Ous Ulletin on fellow ous L g ulletinH e Volume No. A Newsletter of the Friends of the Longfellow House and the National Park Service December Longfellow House Participates in NPSB Museum Centennial Celebration he year marks the hundredth decorative, archeological, Tanniversary of the first museum in the and fine art objects along National Park Service and a celebration of with , documents its current museum sites, the largest sys- collected by the inhabi- tem of museums in the world. The Long- tants of the House. fellow National Historic Site is taking part From about on, in this centennial celebration with the the Longfellow family launching of an expanded Website high- amassed impressive col- lighting its holdings, the completion of lections of books, pho- more conservation work funded by Save tographs, prints, paint- America’s Treasures, and a special display ings, sculpture, textiles, of Japanese items from the collection. (See architectural elements, related articles on pages and .) furniture, and more. Initially, the NPS museums were rudi- Special display of Japanese objects in the Longfellow House dining room Only about percent mentary, such as an arboretum in Yosemite All of the NPS museum collections are of these are on exhibit in the historic rooms (the celebrated museum), a table of unique because the million objects they at any one time, but all are available to artifacts in the ruins at Casa Grande, and hold are preserved in the actual places researchers along with the archives con- even a museum in a tent at Sequoia. But where events and cultural phenomena taining letters and papers with additional they all were and continue to be character- occurred, and the Longfellow NHS collec- information which illuminates and con- ized by a strong association with place. tion is a perfect example. It preserves , textualizes these myriad objects. Charley Longfellow as an Early Collector of Japanese Works hristine Guth’s recent book, Longfellow’s time visited for only a few weeks, Charley CTattoos: Tourism, Collecting, and Japan, uses stayed almost two years from to Charley Longfellow and his travels to Japan and probably would have remained longer as a jumping off point for exploring the if he hadn’t fallen into debt. He even built concepts of and reasons for tourism and a house for himself in Tokyo and appears collecting in Japan’s early Meiji period. to have fathered a child, a daughter he vis- Inspired by artifacts and documents in the ited again in and . House archives, the author examines the Charley’s decision to go to Japan may influences that Japanese and American cul- have been influenced by a number of peo- ture had on each other. She lectured about ple. He lived near Richard Henry Dana Jr. the book and its subject for the Longfellow who in was probably the first Ameri- National Historic Site on October th. can tourist in Japan. Dana gave talks about “Charley was not unique in traveling to his trip, and the Longfellow children would Japan and collecting things there. World have seen the things he brought back since tours were taking off just at the time Charley they were friends with his children. Other went,” Guth stated. Because the first trans- relatives and friends of the poet had also continental railroad had been completed in visited Japan, such as his uncle by marriage Japanese chest now in Alice Longfellow’s study, - and two years earlier regular steamship George Henry Preble and the poet and poet’s son, Charley compulsively collected service from San Francisco to Japan had travel writer Bayard Taylor, both of whom “half a shipload” of Japanese objects, some begun, many people of diverse backgrounds went with Commodore Matthew Perry in of which he characterized as “curios,” oth- visited Japan in the s and s. on his expedition to “open up” Japan. ers as “works of art”—what Guth refers to Although most tourists to Japan at this With his sophisticated background as the (continued on page ) ᳚ Charley Longfellow Collector of Japanese Works (continued from page ) as “trophies of travel”—everything from also one of the first houses to display such ሖሗመ furniture, utilitarian household items, and a wide range of Japanese art. Friends of the Longfellow House clothing, to objets d’art, screens, and fans, to “Historically today, the Japan room is Board of Directors four carefully arranged and labeled albums extremely important. The photographic Barclay Henderson, President of photographs, containing albumen documentation that Charley brought back, Robert Mitchell, Treasurer photos taken by professional photographers. the House’s photographic documentation, Frances Ackerly Soon after his return from and the House report that was Peter Ambler Japan, Charley arranged his done as part of the conserva- Hans-Peter Biemann souvenir collection in a suite of tion effort—these are invalu- Gene A. Blumenreich rooms on the second-floor of able documents for under- Polly Bryson Dick Dober his father’s house. Many visi- standing not only the House as Rebecca Blevins Faery tors to the House saw Charley’s a whole but how Japan changed Fran Folsom “Japan Room,” whose decora- over time. This is a very impor- Diana der Hovanessian tions included a painted fire- tant visual document of Japan’s Carol Johnson screen, an ornamental cut- relation with New England at Sarah Jolliffe metal lantern, and lacquer a very particular moment.” Linda Kime bookshelves covered with Jap- But Charley Longfellow Layne Longfellow anese bric-a-brac. He had also “collected” and brought Heather Moulton pasted dozens of fans on the back tattoos from Japan—on Laura Nash ceiling, an idea common in his back a giant carp ascending Lynne Spencer Japanese interior decor in many a waterfall, and on his chest a Advisory Board public and private places. Buddhist deity seated in the Ruth Butler “Clearly this was a show- mouth of a dragon. Guth LeRoy Cragwell place,” said Guth. “During the Bronze incense burner, Japan referred to this as a kind of Diana Korzenik poet’s lifetime and afterwards, people would “cultural cross-dressing.” Japanese fisher- Richard Nylander come to the House and would be taken men were the first to get tattoos to scare off Stephen D. Pratt there to see the room, which represented sharks and other threats. In the Meiji Marilyn Richardson [Charley] and showed a kind of cosmopoli- government banned tattoos, feeling that Marc Shell tanism. Although one can’t make a direct they were “uncivilized.” Charley under- Charles Sullivan link between this House and other Japan stood that this was an “aesthetic of politi- Lowell A. Warren Jr. Eileen Woodford rooms and other Japanese decor in local cal defiance,”said Guth. “He was obviously houses, clearly this was one of the first making a statement, and was always some- Administrator houses—probably the first house—to have thing of an exhibitionist. He identified J.L. Bell a Japan room decorated with fans. It was with actors and the working classes.” Newsletter Committee Glenna Lang, Editor, Writer & Designer Paterson and Korzenik Fellowships Awarded James M. Shea inner of the Paterson Fellow- lowship. In her project “Claiming an Edu- ᇶᇷᇸ Wship, Ivan Jaksic, professor at Notre cation: Alice Mary Longfellow and the Dame University, is a historian of the His- Legacy of Transatlantic Collaboration in National Park Service panic world. His project seeks to explore Nineteenth-century Women’s Higher Edu- Myra Harrison, Superintendent Longfellow’s contact with a variety of cation,” Lamberton explains that from her James M. Shea, Museum Manager scholars and poets in Spain and Latin late twenties on, Alice Longfellow was an Nancy Jones, Education and Visitor Services America, in addition to a number of visi- activist for women’s higher education. Paul Blandford, Museum Educator tors who corresponded with him from the Alice Longfellow’s letters, journals, Archives Specialist Anita Israel, United States, or visited him at Craigie course notebooks, drafts of speeches, papers David Daly, Collections Manager C. Sue Rigney, Planning & Communications House. Jaksic will examine Spanish books and exams, Lamberton argues, provide a rich Liza Stearns, Education Specialist in the House’s collections, many of which context for questions of how nineteenth- Ed Bacigalupo, Chief of Maintenance are presentation copies signed by their century college women experienced higher Scott Fletcher, Facility Manager authors. “With these materials, I hope to education, how they built networks and write two chapters on the meaning of institutions that would foster their learning, Printed by Newprint Offset, Waltham, Mass. Longfellow’s Spanish interests for a book and how they used and reflected on their tentatively titled “Follow Me to Distant educations over the course of their adult Spain: American Intellectuals and the His- lives. She will continue her work in the ማሜምሞ panic World, -.” House archives transcribing many of Alice’s All images are from the Longfellow National Historic L. Jill Lamberton , doctoral candidate letters and trace more fully the nature of her Site collections, unless noted otherwise. at the University of Michigan in Women’s work at “the Annex”[which became Rad- Studies, has won the Korzenik Fel- cliffe College] in its earliest years. ᳚ Interview with a Friend…Meet Christine Guth, Scholar Christine Guth is one of the foremost competing with him. In similar terms the Let me begin with photographs. There are scholars of Japanese art history today. She poet was also borrowing from other cultures lots of photographs from the same period received her Ph.D. from Harvard, and cur- to create an American narrative. Charley was as those that Charley brought back. What rently teaches at Stanford. We spoke with her borrowing from Japanese culture to create makes these unique is that they were for the before her lecture on Charley Longfellow.
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