Keywords: Schooner Bowdoin
Item 76880
Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1946 Media: Transparency
Item 76878
Inuit boys aboard schooner 'Bowdoin,' 1949
Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1949 Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History
After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner <em>Bowdoin,</em> which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.
Exhibit
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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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - General Henry Knox Museum
"Summer teacher institute on the historic schooner Bowdoin X Montpelier is open for guided tours Memorial Day weekend through Columbus Day Tuesday…"
