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Keywords: exploration
Historical Items Showing 3 of 190 View All
Item 26587
Title: Box of Matches Wrapped for Polar Climate, 1906
Contributed by: Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands
Date: 1906
Media: Wood, canvas
Item 28768
Title: Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, ca. 1909
Contributed by: Maine State Museum
Date: circa 1909
Media: Photograph print
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
Exhibits Showing 3 of 10 View All
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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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George Popham and a group of fellow Englishmen arrived at the mouth of the Kennebec River, hoping to trade with Native Americans, find gold and other valuable minerals, and discover a Northwest passage. In 18 months, the fledgling colony was gone.
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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.
Sites Showing 2 of 2 View All
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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.
Site
Biddeford History & Heritage Project
Highlights of Biddeford history presented by McArthur Public Library, Biddeford Historical Society, and Biddeford High School’s Project ASPIRE class. The site explores shipbuilding, the Civil War homefront, women’s clubs, influential residents, and some of the city’s famous artists and inventors.