Keywords: scale models
Item 8671
Fort scale model, Fryeburg, 1941
Contributed by: Fryeburg Public Library Date: 1941 Location: Fryeburg Media: Photoprint
Item 17576
Quarter-scale model canoe, ca. 1997
Contributed by: An individual through Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1906 Location: Atkinson Media: Wood
Exhibit
Memorializing Civil War Veterans: Portland & Westbrook
Three cemeteries -- all of which were in Westbrook during the Civil War -- contain headstones of Civil War soldiers. The inscriptions and embellishments on the stones offer insight into sentiments of the eras when the soldiers died.
Exhibit
Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine
As early as 1633, entrepreneurs along the Piscataqua River in southern Maine utilized the force of the river to power a sawmill, recognizing the potential of the area's natural power sources, but it was not until the 1890s that technology made widespread electricity a reality -- and even then, consumers had to be urged to use it.
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - One of Many Monuments
"… with the creation of a model which was then "scaled-up" to the dimensions of the actual size so the stone carvers could begin their work."
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Story
Story of the "little nun"
by Felicia Garant
My grandmother made a nun's outfit for me
Story
Warming Oceans
by David Reidmiller, Gulf of Maine Research Institute
The rate of warming in the Gulf of Maine is faster than that of more than 95% of the world’s oceans
