Keywords: Light House Lens
Item 37510
West Quoddy Head Light, Lubec, ca. 1860, ca. 1860
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1860 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print
Item 25688
Lantern For 4th, 5th & 6th Order Lighthouses, 1879
Contributed by: Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands Date: 1879-04-01 Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
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These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.
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Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head
"… the 62-inch high third order cylindrical lens efficiently focuses light toward the horizon up to 360 degrees."
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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