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Category: Nature & Geography, Exploration, Explorers & surveyors

Historical Items

These results include photographs, documents, letters, paintings, artifacts, and many other kinds of Maine related items from collections around the state and elsewhere.


Item 23744

Donald B. MacMillan, Wiscasset, 1926

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1926-06-19 Location: Wiscasset Media: Glass Negative

Item 23748

Donald B. MacMillan, Stanley Field, Wiscasset, 1926

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1926-06-19 Location: Wiscasset Media: Glass Negative

Item 23750

Crew in the rigging of the Bowdoin, Wiscasset, 1926

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1926-06-19 Location: Wiscasset Media: Glass Negative

Item 23752

Embarkation of MacMillan Expedition, Wiscasset, 1926

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1926-06-19 Location: Wiscasset Media: Glass Negative

Item 24972

Schooner Bowdoin, backing off the pier, Wiscasset, 1926

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1926-06-19 Location: Wiscasset Media: Glass Negative

Item 25027

Donald B. MacMillan, 1924

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1924 Media: Glass Negative

Item 26180

Peary family members in Greenland, 1902

Contributed by: Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands Date: 1902 Media: Photographic print

Item 28423

John Quincy Adams instruction on northeast boundary, 1823

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1823 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 28939

Bowdoin group at Negro Island Harbor, Nova Scotia, 1891

Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1891 Location: Negro Island Harbor Media: Paper, photograph

Item 28983

Ralph H. Hunt aboard the 'Julia A. Decker,' Nova Scotia, 1891

Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1891 Media: Paper, photograph

Item 28984

Walter R. Hunt aboard the 'Julia A. Decker,' Nova Scotia, 1891

Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1891 Media: Paper, photograph

Item 28987

Young man wearing sealskin clothes, Rockland, 1891

Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1891 Location: Rockland Media: Paper, photograph

Item 28994

Dennis Cole giving Jonathan Cilley a haircut on deck, 1891

Contributed by: Farnsworth Art Museum through Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1891 Media: Photographic print

Item 28999

Austin Cary posing with equipment, Labrador, 1891

Contributed by: Farnsworth Art Museum through Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1891 Media: Photographic print

Item 29002

Cary, Cole returned from Grand Falls, Labrador, 1891

Contributed by: Farnsworth Art Museum through Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1891 Media: Photographic print

Item 54699

Donald MacMillan in rigging of 'Bowdoin,' 1947

Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1947-07-10 Location: Cape Mugford Media: Photographic print

Item 54886

The schooner 'Bowdoin' at sea, ca. 1925

Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: circa 1925 Media: Print

Item 54900

MacMillan with puppy on 'Bowdoin,' 1939

Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1939 Media: Photographic print

Item 54901

Schooner 'Bowdoin' launch, East Boothbay, 1921

Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1921-04-09 Location: East Boothbay Media: Photographic print

Item 54902

Schooner 'Bowdoin' in drydock, South Portland, 1921

Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1921 Location: South Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 54903

Schooner 'Bowdoin' departs from Castine, ca. 1950

Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: circa 1950 Location: Castine Media: Photographic print

Item 54904

Schooner 'Bowdoin' in winter quarters, Baffin Island, 1922

Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1922-04-02 Location: Bowdoin Harbor Media: Photographic print

Item 54914

Fox pelts in rigging of 'Bowdoin,' Baffin Island, 1922

Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1922 Location: Bowdoin Harbor Media: Photographic print

Item 55106

The schooner 'Bowdoin' crew, 1939

Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1939 Media: Photo negative