Maine Memory Network

Josephine Peary, ca. 1913

Contributed by: Maine State Museum Date: circa 1913 Media: Photographic print

Commodore Robert Peary and Mrs. Peary, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Harpswell Media: Card photograph

45-47 Brown Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Feuerman Barnet & Rosenberg Bros Use: Apartments

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.

South Portland's Wartime Shipbuilding

Two shipyards in South Portland, built quickly in 1941 to construct cargo ships for the British and Americans, produced nearly 270 ships in two and a half years. Many of those vessels bore the names of notable Mainers.

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Music in Maine - Music Makers

"Peary’s Arctic explorations, with Peary noting the snowshoes never failed him. After Dunham’s success in Michigan, he and his wife Emma performed on…"

Minik Wallace 1891-1918
by Genevieve LeMoine, The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum

The life of Minik, an Inuit person from Greenland who grew up in New York City.