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Item 31701

Audubon Nature Center, Scarborough, ca. 1972

Contributed by: Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Date: circa 1972 Location: Scarborough Media: Photographic print

Item 14356

Good Will Cottage, Fairfield, ca. 1940

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: circa 1940 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print

Item 105525

Women's ward at Maine General Hospital, Portland, 1890

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1890 Location: Portland Media: photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 111466

Maine Audubon Society Visitors' Center elevations, Falmouth, 1994-1995

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1994–1995 Location: Falmouth Client: Maine Audubon Architect: Carol A. Wilson; Van Dam & Renner/Carol A. Wilson Architects

Online Exhibits

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Maine Medical Center, Bramhall Campus

Maine Medical Center, founded as Maine General Hospital, has dominated Portland’s West End since its construction in 1871 on Bramhall Hill. As the medical field grew in both technological and social practice, the facility of the hospital also changed. This exhibit tracks the expansion and additions to that original building as the hospital adapted to its patients’ needs.

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Swami Ramanathan, Myron Phelps and Countess Canavarro at Green Acre, Eliot, ca. 1900

The Advent of Green Acre, A Baha'i Center of Learning

The Green Acre Baha'i School began as Green Acre Conferences, established by Sarah Jane Farmer in Eliot. She later became part of the Baha'i Faith and hosted speakers and programs that promoted peace. In 1912, the leader of the Baha'i Faith, 'Abdu'l-Baha, visited Green Acre, where hundreds saw him speak.

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Umbazooksus & Beyond

Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.