Keywords: botanical design
Item 105513
Silk faille and cut velvet bustle dress, ca. 1885
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1885
Media: silk, cotton, velvet
This record contains 12 images.
Item 105600
Fringed day mantle, Portland, ca. 1878
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1878
Location: Portland
Media: cotton, silk, satin
This record contains 12 images.
Item 151812
New York Botanical Garden ornamental conifer collections, Bronx, NY, 1946-1999
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1946–1999 Location: Bronx Client: New York Botanical Gardens Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates
Item 151811
New York Botanical Garden Rodney White country garden, Bronx, NY, 1990-1998
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1990–1998 Location: Bronx Client: New York Botanical Gardens Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates
Exhibit
Selections from the Collections
Maine Historical Society staff come across unique and unforgettable items in our collections every day. While it's difficult to choose favorites from a dynamic collection, this exhibit features memorable highlights as selected by members of the MHS staff.
Exhibit
Biddeford, Saco and the Textile Industry
The largest textile factory in the country reached seven stories up on the banks of the Saco River in 1825, ushering in more than a century of making cloth in Biddeford and Saco. Along with the industry came larger populations and commercial, retail, social, and cultural growth.
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"… in the late 1950s and a small library of rare botanical books for Thuya Lodge. John D. Rockefeller Jr. letter to Charles K."
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2
"Dunbar and E.L. Rand, First Annual Report of the Botanical Department 1880 , pp. 55-57, Gray Herbarium Archives, Harvard University “The scenery of…"
