Keywords: Metropolitan
Item 20595
Farrington Block, Portland, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 17286
Opera singer Lillian Nordica, 1904
Contributed by: Nordica Memorial Association Date: 1904 Location: New York; Farmington Media: Photographic print
Item 38566
431-441 Congress Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: C.T. Whipple - Agent Use: Stores - Offices - Assembly Hall
Exhibit
Lillian Nordica: Farmington Diva
Lillian Norton, known as Nordica, was one of the best known sopranos in America and the world at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. She was a native of Farmington.
Exhibit
Members of the Washburn family of Livermore participated in the Civil War in a variety of ways -- from Caroline at the homefront, to Samuel at sea, Elihu, as a Congressman from Illinois, and Israel governor of Maine. The family had considerable influence politically on several fronts.
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 2 of 3
"… in her 1783 portrait by Elizabeth Vigée Le Brun (Metropolitan Museum of Art). Adopted into the more mainstream, the style subsequently developed…"
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"… brandished these musty parchments before rival companies, metropolitan officials, and ordinary settlers alike as a strategy for asserting title."
Story
Lionel "Toots" Bouthot: A life filled with music
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
From the age of 5, a lifetime of contributing to the musical fabric of Biddeford.
