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 (train) lightweight equipment. The "Morning Hiawatha" (trains 5 and 6) and "Afternoon Hiawatha" (trains 3 and 2) continued to operate between Chicago and Minneapolis until the latter train was discontinued on January 23, 1970. The last runs of the "Morning Hiawatha" were on April 30, 1971, immediately prior to the introduction of Amtrak. With the delivery of the 1938 trainsets, the original 1935 "Hiawatha" equipment was reassigned to the Chicago to Omaha/Sioux City route where it ran as the "Midwest Hiawatha". The service began on December 11, 1940. The final trip for the "Midwest Hiawatha" from all terminals occurred on October