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LC Subject Heading: Portland Observatory

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 165

Signal flags, Portland Observatory, ca. 1810

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1810 Location: Portland Media: Art on paper

Item 181

Grand Army of the Republic parade, Portland, 1885

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1885 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 25618

View from Portland Observatory, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Maritime Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative

Item 48270

Portland Observatory, ca. 1907

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1907 Location: Portland Media: Oil, canvas, pine

Item 5586

Portrait of Lemuel Moody, 1826

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1826 Location: Portland Media: Oil on canvas

Item 17324

Model of the Portland Observatory, ca. 1905

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Portland Media: Painted wood

Item 167

Raising of the Portland Monument, 1807

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1807-06-09 Location: Portland Media: Paper

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Item 166

Portland Observatory, ca. 1880

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1880 Location: Portland Media: Transparency

Item 168

Portland Observatory, Munjoy Hill, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Portland Media: Color transparency

Item 177

Observatory timber contract, Portland, 1807

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1807-04-08 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 179

Portland Observatory subscriber agreement, 1807

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1807-03-20 Location: Portland Media: Paper

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Item 184

Portland Observatory, Portland, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Portland Media: Color transparency

Item 187

Commemorative pitcher, 1807

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1807 Location: Portland Media: Pottery

Item 188

Share certificate, Portland Monument Ground, 1807

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1807-10-01 Location: Portland Media: Color transparency

Item 6134

Portland Observatory, ca. 1908

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1908 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 6156

Signals at Portland Observatory, 1807

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1807 Location: Portland; Cape Elizabeth Media: watercolor on paper

Item 23310

View of Portland from Observatory, ca. 1895

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Portland Media: Lantern slide

Item 53889

Edward Howard York, 1937

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1937 Location: Portland Media: Oil on Canvas

Item 58340

Shingle, Portland Observatory, ca. 1905

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Portland Media: Wood, paint

Item 171

View of the Whig Pavilion, Mount Joy, Portland, 1837

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1837-09-27 Location: Portland Media: Hand colored engraving, phototransparency

Item 173

Notes related to the construction of the Portland Observatory, ca. 1807

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1807 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper, color transparency

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Item 40307

Portland Observatory, ca. 1936

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1936 Location: Portland Media: Paper, paint, wood, glass

Item 4144

Munjoy Hill in the Forties, Portland, 1895

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1840 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 14866

Slopes of Munjoy Hill, Portland, as it appeared ca. 1840, created in 1901

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1840 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper