Search Results

Historical Items

View All Showing 2 of 25 Showing 3 of 25

Item 37058

John Bapst National Honor Society, Bangor, ca. 1948

Contributed by: John Bapst Memorial High School Date: 1948 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print

Item 9189

Honor Roll, Norway Grange, 1945

Contributed by: Norway Historical Society Date: 1945 Location: Norway Media: Ink on paper

Item 81398

Tilting Rock Pamphlet, Acadia National Park-Day Mountain, Seal Harbor, ca. 1960

Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: circa 1960 Location: Mount Desert Media: Ink on paper, Photographs

Architecture & Landscape

View All Showing 2 of 2 Showing 2 of 2

Item 151252

Garland Farm, ca. 1955-1990

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1955–1990 Client: Lewis Garland, Architect: Landscape Design Associates

Item 151342

Brown Memorial Library, Clinton, 1903

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1899–1903 Location: Clinton; Clinton Client: Town of Clinton Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Online Exhibits

View All Showing 2 of 49 Showing 3 of 49

Exhibit

Wadsworth-Longfellow House, Portland, ca. 1920

MHS in Pictures: exploring our first 200 years

Two years after separating from Massachusetts, Maine leaders—many who were part of the push for statehood—also separated from Massachusetts Historical Society, creating the Maine Historical Society in 1822. The legislation signed on February 5, 1822 positioned MHS as the third-oldest state dedicated historical organization in the nation. The exhibition features MHS's five locations over the institution's two centuries, alongside images of leaders who have steered the organization through pivotal times.

Exhibit

Les Raquetteurs

In the early 1600s, French explorers and colonizers in the New World quickly adopted a Native American mode of transportation to get around during the harsh winter months: the snowshoe. Most Northern societies had some form of snowshoe, but the Native Americans turned it into a highly functional item. French settlers named snowshoes "raquettes" because they resembled the tennis racket then in use.

Exhibit

400 years of New Mainers

Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.