Keywords: Displays
Item 7872
Window display, Benoit's, Portland, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Portland; Westbrook; Biddeford Media: Photoprint
Item 135726
Bird and butterfly display at the Portland Society of Natural History, ca. 1965
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1965 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print (edited)
Item 75994
653 Stevens Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: The George W. Leighton Company Use: Office & Display Room
Item 150141
Senator & Mrs. Owen Brewster display cabinet, Dexter, 1947
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1947 Location: Dexter Client: Senator Owen Brewster Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell
Item 151784
Farrand Garden, Bar Harbor, 1990-1995
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1990–1995 Location: Bar Harbor Client: College of the Atlantic Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates
Exhibit
A Celebration of Skilled Artisans
The Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, an organization formed to promote and support skilled craftsmen, celebrated civic pride and members' trades with a parade through Portland on Oct. 8, 1841 at which they displayed 17 painted linen banners with graphic and textual representations of the artisans' skills.
Exhibit
St-Jean-Baptiste Day -- June 24th -- in Lewiston-Auburn was a very public display of ethnic pride for nearly a century. Since about 1830, French Canadians had used St. John the Baptist's birthdate as a demonstration of French-Canadian nationalism.
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - Weatherbee Hardware Store window display, Lincoln, ca. 1943
"Weatherbee Hardware Store window display, Lincoln, ca. 1943 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description This display shows…"
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Story
A Loon's World
by Norma Salway
Loons on Songo Pond
Story
William Manning in conversation with Christopher Crosman
by William Manning and Christopher Crosman
A conversation between an artist and art historian
Lesson Plan
Immigration: The Not So Open Door
Grade Level: 9-12
Content Area: Social Studies
Learn about immigration in the United States using primary sources from Maine Memory Network and the Library of Congress.
