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Keywords: Expeditions
Historical Items Showing 3 of 126 View All
Item 13641
Title: George Wardwell snowshoes, Bucksport, ca. 1909
Contributed by: Bucksport Historical Society
Date: circa 1909
Location: Bucksport
Media: Wood, leather
Item 23295
Title: Donald B. MacMillan expedition, Wiscasset, 1925
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media
Date: 1925
Location: Wiscasset
Media: Glass negative
Item 54903
Title: Schooner 'Bowdoin' departs from Castine, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
Date: circa 1950
Location: Castine
Media: Photograph
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A Naval Disaster: The Penobscot Expedition
A fleet of privateers and hastily recruited soldiers failed to stop the British from occupying Majabigwaduce on Penobscot Bay in 1779. The disastrous Penobscot Expedition left the area, later known as Castine, to the British and a loyalist colony called New Ireland.
Exhibit
Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador
"The Bowdoin Boys" -- some students and recent graduates -- traveled to Labrador in 1891 to collect artifacts, specimens, and to try to find Grand Falls, a waterfall deep in Labrador's interior.
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The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History
After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner Bowdoin, which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.
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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
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