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Historical Items Showing 3 of 642 View All
Item 11676
Title: Henry Knox travel kit, ca. 1790
Contributed by: Montpelier, The General Henry Knox Museum
Date: circa 1790
Media: Wood, china, metal, glass
Item 13841
Title: Travel Bargains, Maine Central Railroad, 1930
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1930
Media: Ink on paper
Item 11608
Title: John Davison letter from Key West, Florida, December 29, 1846
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1846-12-29
Location: Augusta; Key West
Media: Ink on paper
Exhibits Showing 3 of 10 View All
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Trolleys were the cleanest and most efficient means of mass transit Maine has ever known.
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 Bowdoin, which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.
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Samantha Smith, a Manchester schoolgirl, gained international fame in 1983 by asking Soviet leader Yuri Andropov whether he intended to start a nuclear war and then visiting the Soviet Union to be reassured that no one there wanted war.