Keywords: pierced tin
Item 16480
Pierced Tin Candle Lantern, Houlton, ca. 1820
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1820 Location: Houlton Media: Tin
Item 100162
Longfellow washtub, Portland, ca. 1860
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1860 Location: Portland Media: Seamed tin
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
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.
