Keywords: Designers
Item 105702
Designer couture robe, Portland, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1936
Location: Portland; New York
Media: wool, silk
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Item 102215
Ida May Lane's jacket, ca. 1925
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1925 Media: Velvet, fur, fabric
Item 151803
Old Westbury Gardens planting plan, Old Westbury, NY, 1978-1992
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1978–1992 Location: North Hampstead Client: Old Westbury Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates
Item 151874
Levy/Gurell residence gate and fence design, Seal Harbor, 1991
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1991 Location: Mount Desert Clients: Ira Levy; Stan Gurell Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates
Exhibit
For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.
Exhibit
Good Will-Hinckley: Building a Landscape
The landscape at the Good Will-Hinckley campus in Fairfield was designed to help educate and influence the orphans and other needy children at the school and home.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Gate no 7 design, Bangor, 1867
"He continued that he would use the design, "if ever I am so lucky as to build one again and should be compelled to use wooden posts." He noted that…"
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin gate design, Bangor, 1867
"John Martin gate design, Bangor, 1867 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description John Martin (1823-1904)…"
Story
Decontie and Brown's venture in high fashion design
by Decontie and Brown
Penobscot haute couture designs from Bangor
Story
Eric Chamberlin - Learning Experience Designer
by MLTI Stories of Impact Project
Eric Chamberlin talks about Boothbay Region Elementary School becoming an MLTI Exploration School.
Lesson Plan
Maine's Beneficial Bugs: Insect Sculpture Upcycle/ Recycle S.T.E.A.M Challenge
Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8
Content Area: Science & Engineering, Visual & Performing Arts
In honor of Earth Day (or any day), Students use recycled, reused, and upcycled materials to create a sculpture of a beneficial insect that lives in the state of Maine. Students use the Engineer Design Process to develop their ideas. Students use the elements and principles to analyze their prototypes and utilize interpersonal skills during peer feedback protocol to accept and give constructive feedback.
Lesson Plan
Longfellow Studies: "The Jewish Cemetery at Newport"
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
Longfellow's poem "The Jewish Cemetery at Newport" opens up the issue of the earliest history of the Jews in America, and the significant roles they played as businessmen and later benefactors to the greater community. The history of the building itself is notable in terms of early American architecture, its having been designed, apparently gratis, by the most noted architect of the day. Furthermore, the poem traces the history of Newport as kind of a microcosm of New England commercial cities before the industrialization boom. For almost any age student the poem could be used to open up interest in local cemeteries, which are almost always a wealth of curiousities and history. Longfellow and his friends enjoyed exploring cemeteries, and today our little local cemeteries can be used to teach little local histories and parts of the big picture as well.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow visited the Jewish cemetery in Newport, RI on July 9, 1852. His popular poem about the site, published two years later, was certainly a sympathetic portrayal of the place and its people. In addition to Victorian romantic musings about the "Hebrews in their graves," Longfellow includes in this poem references to the historic persecution of the Jews, as well as very specific references to their religious practices.
Since the cemetery and the nearby synagogue were restored and protected with an infusion of funding just a couple years after Longfellow's visit, and later a congregation again assembled, his gloomy predictions about the place proved false (never mind the conclusion of the poem, "And the dead nations never rise again!"). Nevertheless, it is a fascinating poem, and an interesting window into the history of the nation's oldest extant synagogue.