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 signaling changes, and the scheduled duration went back to 90 minutes end-to-end. Under Amtrak, which assumed control of most intercity passenger rail service in the United States on May 1, 1971, the "Hiawatha" name survived in two forms. The first was a Chicago–Milwaukee–Minneapolis service, known simply as the "Hiawatha". This would be renamed the "Twin Cities Hiawatha", then extended to Seattle and renamed the "North Coast Hiawatha". This service ended in 1979. The second was a Chicago–Milwaukee corridor known as the "Hiawatha Service" (as opposed to "Hiawatha"). Although Amtrak had retained Chicago–Milwaukee service during the transition, it did not name