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Item 100590

Samuel B. Washburn, Portland, ca. 1865

Samuel B. Washburn, Portland, ca. 1865

Contributed by: Washburn Norlands Living History Center Date: circa 1865 Location: Portland Media: Carte de visite

Item 18285

U.S.S. Montauk, Portland Harbor, 1898

U.S.S. Montauk, Portland Harbor, 1898

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1898 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative

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Miriam and Donald MacMillan, Greenland, 1947

The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History

After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner <em>Bowdoin,</em> which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ca. 1829

Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man and a poet of New England conscience. He was influenced by his ancestry and his Portland boyhood home and experience.

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Henry Thurston Clark trunk, ca. 1872

Amazing! Maine Stories

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.