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Historical Items

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Item 111156

Rockefeller Gardens rock steps, Seal Harbor, ca. 1934

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1934 Location: Mount Desert Island Media: stereograph

Item 1395

Rock garden, Driftwood Lodge, Rangeley Lake, 1938

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1938-07-18 Location: Rangeley Media: Photographic print

Item 52415

Granite House and garden, Fairfield, ca. 1935

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: circa 1935 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109924

Preliminary Plan for Rock Garden, Augusta, 1927

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1927 Location: Augusta Client: Walter S. Wyman Architect: Olmsted Brothers

Item 109949

Rock Garden for Deering Oaks, Detail of Planning, Portland, 1935

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1935 Location: Portland Client: City of Portland Architect: unknown

Item 109948

General plan for park system, Portland, 1905

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1905 Location: Portland Client: City of Portland Architect: Olmsted Brothers

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Designing Acadia

For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.

Exhibit

Inside the Yellow House

Photographer Elijah Cobb's 1985 portfolio of the Laura E. Richards House, with text by Rosalind Cobb Wiggins and Laura E. Putnam.

Exhibit

The Devil and the Wilderness

Anglo-Americans in northern New England sometimes interpreted their own anxieties about the Wilderness, their faith, and their conflicts with Native Americans as signs that the Devil and his handmaidens, witches, were active in their midst.

Site Pages

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Site Page

John Martin: Expert Observer - Ada Martin, Bangor, 1865

"… favoured hobby sitting by a window all alone in a rocking chair her foot on another chair reading." View additional information about this item…"

Site Page

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 6 of 6

"… and his relationships with the Asticou Azalea Garden, Asticou Terraces Trust, and Thuya Garden. Several images and background materials were used…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars

Story

Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler

How hunting has impacted my life

Story

Catching live bait with Grandfather
by Randy Randall

We never bought live bait for fishing. Grandfather caught all the minnows and shiners we needed.