Keywords: Air pollution
Item 25771
Letter to Muskie on Portland pollution, 1970
Contributed by: Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library Date: 1970 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 25726
Student letter to Edmund Muskie, Poland, 1970
Contributed by: Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library Date: 1970 Location: Poland Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
Clean Water: Muskie and the Environment
Maine Senator Edmund S. Muskie earned the nickname "Mr. Clean" for his environment efforts during his tenure in Congress from 1959 to 1980. He helped created a political coalition that passed important clean air and clean water legislation, drawing on his roots in Maine.
Exhibit
John Dunn, 19th Century Sportsman
John Warner Grigg Dunn was an accomplished amateur photographer, hunter, fisherman and lover of nature. On his trips to Ragged Lake and environs, he became an early innovator among amateur wildlife photographers. His photography left us with a unique record of the Moosehead Lake region in the late nineteenth century.
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook
"The river got very polluted when the sewage and toilet waste got flushed into the river. All the men that worked for the ice industry lost their jobs."
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook
"The river got very polluted when the sewage and toilet waste got flushed into the river. All the men that worked for the ice industry lost their jobs."
