Keywords: Mechanics Hall (Portland, Me.)Mechanics Hall (Portland, Me.)
Item 111817
Copperplate engraving of Mechanics' Hall, Portland, 1906
Contributed by: Mechanics' Hall Date: 1906 Location: Portland Media: Copper and wood
Item 111991
Maine Charitable Mechanics' bronze medal, Portland, 1854
Contributed by: Mechanics' Hall Date: 1854 Location: Portland Media: bronze
Item 151201
City Hall Myrtle Street elevations, Portland, 1909-1910
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1909–1910 Location: Portland Client: City of Portland Architect: Carrere & Hastings
Item 151694
Portland City Hall mechanical drawings, Portland, 1909-1911
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1909–1911 Location: Portland Client: City of Portland Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
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
These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.
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Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
