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Historical Items

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Item 40339

View from Pride's Bridge, Portland, 1861

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1861 Location: Portland Media: Oil paint on panel

Item 22678

Aroostook Woods Cottage, Houlton, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

Item 102774

Portland Custom House officials under President James Buchanan, ca. 1857

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1857 Location: Portland Media: Albumen print

Tax Records

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Item 90172

Bird property, W. Side Sunset Road, Cliff Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Henry Bird Use: Summer Dwelling

Item 72464

49 Revere Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Adelbert J. Bird Use: Dwelling - Three Family

Item 54079

89-91 Forest Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Henry J. Bird Use: Dwelling - Two family

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 151431

Will Bird House, Rockland, 1897

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1897 Location: Rockland Client: Will Bird Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Item 151708

Alan Bird house, Rockland, 1915-1953

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1915–1953 Location: Rockland Client: Alan L. Bird Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Item 151623

Theodore Bird house, Rockland, 1948-1949

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1948–1949 Location: Rockland Client: Theodore S. Bird Architect: John Howard Stevens and John Calvin Stevens II Architects

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Mt. Carrigain expedition remembrance, 1873

Hiking, Art and Science: Portland's White Mountain Club

In 1873, a group of men, mostly from Portland, formed the second known hiking club in the U.S., the White Mountain Club of Portland, to carry out their scientific interests, their love of hiking and camaraderie, and their artistic interests in painting and drawing the features of several of the White Mountains.

Exhibit

Trustees' Office, Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, ca. 1915

In Time and Eternity: Shakers in the Industrial Age

"In Time and Eternity: Maine Shakers in the Industrial Age 1872-1918" is a series of images that depict in detail the Shakers in Maine during a little explored time period of expansion and change.

Exhibit

Walker Memorial Library, Westbrook, 1943

Hunting Season

Maine's ample woods historically provided numerous game animals and birds for hunters seeking food, fur, or hides. The promotion of hunting as tourism and concerns about conservation toward the end of the nineteenth century changed the nature of hunting in Maine.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Harbor Cottage at Asticou Northeast Harbor Maine ca. 1880

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… (1813-1882) of Massachusetts and Harrison Bird Brown (1831-1915) of Portland. Later on other famous artists, including Frederick Church…"

Site Page

Captain John W. Kane, Blue Hill, ca. 1900

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"The stately federal-style houses that grace the shaded village streets of Blue Hill today were built in the early nineteenth century with profits…"