Keywords: Perfume
Item 100174
Perfume bottle, Portland, ca. 1850
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1850 Location: Portland Media: Glass
Item 104302
Recipe for reusing rose petals, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
Margaret Chase Smith: A Historic Candidacy
When she announced her candidacy for President in January 1964, three-term Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman to seek the nomination of one of the two major political parties.
Exhibit
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.
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
