Hiawatha and Minnehaha by Edmonia Lewis Hiawatha and Minnehaha by Edmonia Lewis Hiawatha and Minnehaha are 1868 sculptures by Edmonia Lewis. They are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on view in gallery 759. African-American, Haitian and Chippewa (Ojibwa) artist, Lewis, developed her neoclassical style of marble sculpture while working in Rome. Lewis was an admirer of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poetry, and in 1869 Longfellow visited her studio where he posed for one of her portraits which was shortly afterward acquired by Harvard University. Often working in themes that intersected her identity, Lewis focused a series of marble sculptures based on Longfellow’s much-referenced
Hiawatha Service was added to the "Hiawatha". The "Hiawatha Service" is the second-shortest route on the Amtrak system, with the first being the "New Haven–Springfield Shuttle". Historically, the "Hiawathas" were operated by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (also known as the "Milwaukee Road") and initially traveled from Chicago to the Twin Cities. The first "Hiawatha" trains ran in 1935. By 1946, there were actually four routes carrying the "Hiawatha" name: Chicago–Minneapolis, Chicago–Omaha, Chicago–Wausau–Minocqua, and Chicago-Minneapolis-Seattle. The "Hiawathas" were among the world's fastest trains in the 1930s and 1940s, and these trains reached some of their peak speeds on this