Keywords: Portland (Me.)
Item 4148
Advertising card, Portland Packing Co., ca. 1870
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1867 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 104722
Five Deering High School basketball players huddling around camera, Portland, 1936
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1936-12-17 Location: Portland Media: glass negative
Item 86868
Storage, Portland Pier, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Proprietors of Portland Pier Use: Storage
Item 86874
Workshop, Portland Pier, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Proprietors of Portland Pier Use: Workshop
Item 110000
Workshop for Maine School for the Blind, Portland, 1908
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1908 Location: Portland Client: Maine School for the Blind Architect: Frederick A. Tompson
Item 110094
Sketch for Club Rooms for the Portland Farmer's Club, Portland, ca. 1922
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1922 Location: Portland Client: Portland Farmer's Club Architect: Poor & Thomas
Exhibit
Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland
The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.
Exhibit
Since the establishment of the area's first licensed hotel in 1681, Portland has had a dramatic, grand and boisterous hotel tradition. The Portland hotel industry has in many ways reflected the growth and development of the city itself. As Portland grew with greater numbers of people moving through the city or calling it home, the hotel business expanded to fit the increasing demand.
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Story
Portland in the 1940s
by Carol Norton Hall
As a young woman in Portland during WWII, the presence of servicemen was life changing.
Story
Portland Bars: Carlo's and Boothby Square
by anonymous
Carlo Giobbi on his family's Portland Bars: Carlo's and Boothby Square
Lesson Plan
World War I and the U.S. Home Front
Grade Level: 9-12
Content Area: Social Studies
Learn about World War I using primary sources from Maine Memory Network and the Library of Congress.
Lesson Plan
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12, Postsecondary
Content Area: Science & Engineering, Social Studies
This lesson presents an overview of the history of the fur trade in Maine with a focus on the 17th and 18th centuries, on how fashion influenced that trade, and how that trade impacted Indigenous peoples and the environment.
