Keywords: travel gear
Item 23747
Mary Metcalf, Marion Smith, and Maude Fisher, Wiscasset, 1926
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1926-06-19 Location: Wiscasset Media: Glass Negative
Item 10586
Contributed by: The General Henry Knox Museum Date: circa 1790 Location: Thomaston; Mercer Media: Wood
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador
"The Bowdoin Boys" -- some students and recent graduates -- traveled to Labrador in 1891 to collect artifacts, specimens, and to try to find Grand Falls, a waterfall deep in Labrador's interior.
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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2
"… of the family yacht (the Sunshine) and camping gear. The Eliot family had been spending summers in the region since Charles was a young boy."