Keywords: Well fleet
Item 71684
Casco Bay Fleet at wharf, Portland, ca. 1938
Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1938 Location: Portland Media: Linen texture postcard
Item 103285
The Freeman brothers, Portland, 1882
Courtesy of Robert "Rusty" Atwood, an individual partner Date: 1882 Location: Portland; Wellfleet Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Drawing Together: Art of the Longfellows
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is best know as a poet, but he also was accomplished in drawing and music. He shared his love of drawing with most of his siblings. They all shared the frequent activity of drawing and painting with their children. The extended family included many professional as well as amateur artists, and several architects.
Exhibit
Port of Portland's Custom House and Collectors of Customs
The collector of Portland was the key to federal patronage in Maine, though other ports and towns had collectors. Through the 19th century, the revenue was the major source of Federal Government income. As in Colonial times, the person appointed to head the custom House in Casco Bay was almost always a leading community figure, or a well-connected political personage.
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - U.S. Flagship Hartford
"… Historical Society Works Cited "Farragut's Fleet." 01 May 2009…"
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Northeast Harbor: Rustic to Rusticators
"… Rustic to Rusticators Northeast Harbor Fleet Race, ca. 1930Great Harbor Maritime Museum In 1761, Abraham Somes moved his family to Mt."
Story
making light
by David Johansen
My relationship with Maine and how and why I make neon lights here.
Story
Portland in the 1940s
by Carol Norton Hall
As a young woman in Portland during WWII, the presence of servicemen was life changing.
