Keywords: Labrador
Item 29000
Ernest Young leaning on rifle, Labrador, 1891
Contributed by: Farnsworth Art Museum through Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1891 Media: Photographic print
Item 28999
Austin Cary posing with equipment, Labrador, 1891
Contributed by: Farnsworth Art Museum through Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1891 Media: Photographic print
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.
Exhibit
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 <em>Bowdoin,</em> 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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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life
"… Islanders still fished, but instead of sailing to Labrador, they stayed more local. Foremost, of course, were lobsters, but other fishermen still…"
Story
Wabanaki-Greenland connections
by Jennifer Sapiel Neptune
Exploring cultural resiliency in this time of rapidly changing climate.
