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) 29, 1955. On the next day, October 30, 1955, the Milwaukee Road assumed operation of Union Pacific Railroad's "City of San Francisco", "City of Los Angeles", "City of Denver", "City of Portland" and "Challenger" trains. The "Midwest Hiawatha" became two Sioux Falls-Chicago coaches that combined with the "Challenger" in Manilla. The Milwaukee Road dropped the name altogether in April 1956. The "North Woods Hiawatha" began in June 1936, branching off from the main "Hiawatha" route in New Lisbon, Wisconsin to serve Minocqua, Wisconsin. The Milwaukee Road dropped the "Hiawatha" moniker in 1956 and discontinued the service altogether in 1970. A