Keywords: Dead animals
Item 11122
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1900 Media: Photographic print
Item 13579
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1895 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Named for the two largest things in Maine at the turn of the 20th century, Mt. Katahdin and Granger of Stetson, were known as the Largest Oxen in the World. Unable to do farm work because of their size, they visited fairs and agricultural events around the Northeast.
Exhibit
CODE RED: Climate, Justice & Natural History Collections
Explore topics around climate change by reuniting collections from one of the nation's earliest natural history museums, the Portland Society of Natural History. The exhibition focuses on how museums collect, and the role of humans in creating changes in society, climate, and biodiversity.
Site Page
Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 1 of 2
"… portrait busts and ideal works such as The Dead Pearl Diver and St. Elizabeth of Hungary. His promising career ended prematurely in his death from…"
Site Page
"… Paul Delaroche declared, "From today, painting is dead." Yet the daguerreotype would not replace the artist’s hand, but instead become a tool to be…"
Story
Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler
How hunting has impacted my life