Keywords: Mechanics' Hall
Item 111817
Copperplate engraving of Mechanics' Hall, Portland, 1906
Contributed by: Mechanics' Hall Date: 1906 Location: Portland Media: Copper and wood
Item 111798
MCMA silver medal, Portland, 1826
Contributed by: Mechanics' Hall Date: 1826 Location: Portland Media: Silver medal
Item 116433
Portland City Hall mechanical drawings, Portland, 1909-1911
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1909–1911 Location: Portland Client: City of Portland Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Item 110266
City Hall Myrtle Street elevations, Portland, 1909-1910
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1909–1910 Location: Portland Client: City of Portland Architect: Carrere & Hastings
Exhibit
A Celebration of Skilled Artisans
The Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, an organization formed to promote and support skilled craftsmen, celebrated civic pride and members' trades with a parade through Portland on Oct. 8, 1841 at which they displayed 17 painted linen banners with graphic and textual representations of the artisans' skills.
Exhibit
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.
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4
It was almost entirely handwork, with hardly any mechanical assist. This was not a process people went to school to learn about or read a book on how…
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor
… the industry, and still was “women’s work.” Some mechanization in this step is evident from the photograph.
Story
Biddeford and Maine Franco-American Hall of Fame Award recipient
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
With options to be a college French professor, became a lawyer, mayor, DA & District Court Judge
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
