Keywords: Urban landscape
Item 81071
Map of Asticou Corner, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1954
Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: circa 1954 Location: Mount Desert Media: Illustration, ink on paper
Item 148667
Contributed by: Acadian Archives Date: circa 1909 Location: Van Buren Media: Photographic postcard
Item 151858
Leon Levy Foundation elevations, New York, NY, 2006
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2006 Location: New York Clients: Leon Levy; Leon Levy Foundation Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates
Exhibit
Poland Spring: Summering in Fashion
During the Gilded Age at the end of the nineteenth century, Americans sought to leave increasing urban, industrialized lives for the health and relaxation of the country. The Poland Spring resort, which offered a beautiful setting, healing waters, and many amenities, was one popular destination.
Exhibit
Of Note: Maine Sheet Music features captivating covers of original sheet music along with stories about Maine connections to the songs. Before people had easy access to popular music from records, radios, and the internet, they played songs of the day on instruments at home, using sheet music purchased at music stores. Iconic Maine subjects like lobsters, pine trees, and winter were perfect for lyrics sung by luminaries like Rudy Vallée of Westbrook, and intricate artwork of Maine’s landscape graced the sheet music covers.
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Architecture & Landscape database - Database Overview
"Landscape design, parks, urban planning, and planned communities represent a smaller, but growing portion of the listed holdings."
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …next came the artists and rusticators.
"… from the noise and pollution of industrialized urban life. Hoping that the “cool waters of Eden” might invigorate body and soul, vacationers…"
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Scientist Turned Artist Making Art Out of Trash
by Ian Trask
Bowdoin College alum returns to midcoast Maine to make environmentally conscious artwork
