Keywords: Drawings
Item 13002
Fog Whistle Engineering Drawing, Portland Company, 1868
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1868-08-13 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper, drawings
Item 6030
House sketch, Cushing Island, ca. 1883
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1883 Location: Portland Media: Architectural drawing
Item 151114
Portland Junior College, Deering Estate carriage house and old barn, Portland, 1946-1948
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1946–1948 Location: Portland Client: Portland Junior College Architect: John Howard Stevens John Calvin Stevens II Architects
Item 151112
Deering Avenue Junior High School, Portland, 1949
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1949 Location: Portland Client: City of Portland Architect: John Howard Stevens John Calvin Stevens II Architects
Exhibit
Drawing Together: Art of the Longfellows
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is best know as a poet, but he also was accomplished in drawing and music. He shared his love of drawing with most of his siblings. They all shared the frequent activity of drawing and painting with their children. The extended family included many professional as well as amateur artists, and several architects.
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
Architecture & Landscape database - Plans for the Dwelling House Jos. Briggs, Winthrop, 1884
"… item is part of the Coombs Brothers architectural drawings collection. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."
Site Page
Architecture & Landscape database - Search the Database
"… commission may range from one to several hundred drawings. If an architect or designer worked on the same project over time, or if a different…"
Story
My artwork help process memories of Vietnam
by Brian Barry
My Eagle drawing won first place in the Togus Arts and Crafts show, third in the Nationals.
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
Lesson Plan
Primary Sources: The Maine Shipyard
Grade Level: 9-12
Content Area: Social Studies
This lesson plan will give students a close-up look at historical operations behind Maine's famed shipbuilding and shipping industries. Students will examine primary sources including letters, bills of lading, images, and objects, and draw informed hypotheses about the evolution of the seafaring industry and its impact on Maine’s communities over time.
Lesson Plan
Primary Sources: Daily Life in 1820
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Content Area: Social Studies
This lesson plan will give students the opportunity to explore and analyze primary source documents from the years before, during, and immediately after Maine became the 23rd state in the Union. Through close looking at documents, objects, and art from Maine during and around 1820, students will ask questions and draw informed conclusions about life at the time of statehood.
