Keywords: Ceramics
Item 100156
Swasey bean pot, Portland, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Portland Media: Stoneware
Item 100173
Blue shell-edge soup plate, Portland, ca. 1845
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1845 Location: Portland Media: Earthenware
Exhibit
When Europeans arrived in North America and disrupted traditional Native American patterns of life, they also offered other opportunities: trade goods for furs. The fur trade had mixed results for the Wabanaki.
Exhibit
Otisfield's One-Room Schoolhouses
Many of the one-room schoolhouses in Otisfield, constructed from 1839 through the early twentieth century, are featured here. The photos, most of which also show teachers and children, were taken between 1898 and 1998.
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - 1850-1870 - Page 2 of 4
"… buttons, set with miniature cameos of either ceramic or glass. These buttons are not rare or of especially high quality, but are reflective of the…"
Site Page
Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Privy
"A team of archaeologists investigated the discovery and determined the ceramics had been thrown into a privy that was used by people who lived in a…"
Story
Ramen Making
by Ayumi Horie
Ramen Making is about family, cooking, pottery, and what it means to make a life through one's hands
Story
My artwork help process memories of Vietnam
by Brian Barry
My Eagle drawing won first place in the Togus Arts and Crafts show, third in the Nationals.