Search Results

Historical Items

View All Showing 2 of 66 Showing 3 of 66

Item 7932

Paul Freeman ca. 1895

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Media: Photoprint

Item 111785

Tiger slippers, Portland, 1915

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1915 Location: Portland Media: cotton

Item 14776

Helen Morill Smith, 1903

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1903-03-19 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

View All Showing 2 of 11 Showing 3 of 11

Exhibit

Eternal Images: Photographing Childhood

From the earliest days of photography doting parents from across Maine sought to capture images of their young children. The studio photographs often reflect the families' images of themselves and their status or desired status.

Exhibit

Preble House, Great Cranberry Island, ca. 1895

Great Cranberry Island's Preble House

The Preble House, built in 1827 on a hilltop over Preble Cove on Great Cranberry Island, was the home to several generations of Hadlock, Preble, and Spurling family members -- and featured in several books.

Exhibit

Woodbury K. Dana's grave, Westbrook, 1924

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.