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Keywords: Moss

Historical Items

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Item 76319

Plan of Moss Side Cemetery, Cumberland Center, 1937

Contributed by: Prince Memorial Library Date: 1937-12-01 Location: Cumberland Center Media: Ink on paper

Item 7470

Hilda Moss, Maine General Hospital housekeeping, Portland, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 102610

Moss gatherer in boat, Scituate, Massachusetts, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Stanley Museum on deposit at Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Scituate Media: Glass Negative

Tax Records

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Architecture & Landscape

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Item 151279

Goldstein residence, Winter Harbor, 1982-1993

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1982–1993 Location: Winter Harbor Client: Alan Goldstein, Architect: Landscape Design Associates

Item 151293

Skylands, Mount Desert, 1922-2000

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1922–2000 Location: Mount Desert Client: Martha Stewart Architect: Landscape Design Associates
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Online Exhibits

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Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador

"The Bowdoin Boys" -- some students and recent graduates -- traveled to Labrador in 1891 to collect artifacts, specimens, and to try to find Grand Falls, a waterfall deep in Labrador's interior.

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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.

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Begin Again: reckoning with intolerance in Maine

BEGIN AGAIN explores Maine's historic role, going back 528 years, in crisis that brought about the pandemic, social and economic inequities, and the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Architecture

"… flat on the inside and filled the chinks with moss to reduce draughts, and covered the ceilings with matched boards (tongue and groove)."

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Great Cranberry Island Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"… the growth of trees, shrubs, plants, ferns and mosses cared for. This park should be free to all on condition that no rules of the Association were…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

In an Old, Abandoned Island House, I Found my Mentor and my Muse
by Robin Clifford Wood

An aspiring writer finds inspiration and a mentor from the past in an old island home.