Keywords: Stuffed animals
Item 104814
Pearl Hadley Matlock at the NFBPWC convention, Portland, 1925
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1925-07-14 Location: Portland Media: glass negative
Item 28429
Raymond Kerr, Portland, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Portland Media: Photograph on postcard
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
Samantha Smith, a Manchester schoolgirl, gained international fame in 1983 by asking Soviet leader Yuri Andropov whether he intended to start a nuclear war and then visiting the Soviet Union to be reassured that no one there wanted war.
Site Page
Highlighting Historical Hampden - Buttons
"Stuffed into a dark and dusty corner, the buttons had not seen light since the Historical Society had received them from Mr. Varney."
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2
"… flowers and prepared animal specimens (e.g., stuffed birds), and took notes. They sang songs, wrote poems, lit firecrackers, pranked one another…"
Story
From Naturalists to Environmentalists
by Andy Beahm
The beginnings of Maine Audubon in the Portland Society of Natural History
