Search Results

Historical Items

View All Showing 2 of 29 Showing 3 of 29

Item 135841

Furbish’s Lousewort, Fort Kent, 1881

Contributed by: Harvard University Herbarium Date: 1881 Location: Fort Kent Media: Botanical specimen

Item 135842

Furbish's Lousewort, Van Buren, 1880

Contributed by: New England Botanical Society Date: 1880 Location: Van Buren Media: Botanical specimen

Item 135727

Leatherback turtle display at the Portland Society of Natural History, ca. 1965

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1965 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

View All Showing 2 of 10 Showing 3 of 10

Exhibit

Grand Falls Expedition party, Labrador, 1891

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.

Exhibit

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Reform and Repeal

"This specimen was given out with Belfast 5" cigars. X The Beer Question Newspaper clipping, April 27, 1933."

Exhibit

Bird and butterfly display at the Portland Society of Natural History, ca. 1965

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.

Site Pages

View All Showing 2 of 8 Showing 3 of 8

Site Page

Fryeburg Historical Society

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Site Page

Benjamin Shepard Judkins' felted wool cape, Palmyra, ca. 1835

Historic Clothing Collection - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 2 of 2

"Buck, when surviving specimens of dress are studied in the same way as other material evidence of civilization, clothing takes its place as part of…"