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Mystery Corner Item

Item 104672

Beryl Markham with spectators, 1936

Beryl Markham with spectators, 1936

Mystery Corner Item Do you know where this was taken?

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1936-09-06 Media: glass negative

Mystery Corner Item

Item 104673

Beryl Markham, 1936

Beryl Markham, 1936

Mystery Corner Item Do you know where this was taken?

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1936-09-06 Media: glass negative

Mystery Corner Item

Item 104671

Beryl Markham, 1936

Beryl Markham, 1936

Mystery Corner Item Do you know where this was taken?

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1936 Media: glass negative

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 151617

MMN #116293

James P. Baxter house, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Client: James P. Baxter Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Shaylor's 'Compendium of Penmanship,' ca. 1900

Horace W. Shaylor: Portland Penman

Horace W. Shaylor, a native of Ohio, settled in Portland and turned his focus to handwriting, developing several unique books of handwriting instruction. He also was a talented artist.

Exhibit

Lillian Nordica as Valentine, 1887

Lillian Nordica: Farmington Diva

Lillian Norton, known as Nordica, was one of the best known sopranos in America and the world at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. She was a native of Farmington.

Exhibit

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ca. 1843

Picturing Henry

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's popularity in the 19th century is reflected by the number of images of him -- in a variety of media -- that were produced and reproduced, some to go with published works of his, but many to be sold to the public on cards and postcards.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Dolley Madison, 1846

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 1 of 3

"Famous People Dolley Madison, 1846Maine Historical Society Dolly Madison Remembered as one of America’s great first ladies, Dolly Madison…"

Site Page

Hannibal Hamlin, ca. 1860

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 2 of 3

"Famous People Hannibal Hamlin, ca. 1860Maine Historical Society Hannibal Hamlin This ambrotype of Hannibal Hamlin (1809-1891) probably dates…"

Site Page

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"Each did are are doing things to make themselves famous, and they changed history for the better. Hannibal Hamlin was a famous attorney and…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Kim's famous homemade potato donuts

Kim's famous homemade potato donuts
by Kim Smith

Sharing my potato donut memories and recipe

Story

Mali Agat (Molly Ockett) the famous Wabanaki "Doctress"

Mali Agat (Molly Ockett) the famous Wabanaki "Doctress"
by Maine Historical Society

Pigwacket Molly Ockett, healing, and cultural ecological knowledge

Story

The best lobster roll in Maine!

The best lobster roll in Maine!
by Debbie Gagnon

The history of Red's Eats and the recipe for our famous Lobster Rolls

Lesson Plans

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Lesson Plan

Engraving of Evangeline, by James Faed, ca. 1854

Bicentennial Lesson Plan

Maine's Acadian Community: "Evangeline," Le Grand Dérangement, and Cultural Survival

Grade Level: 9-12 Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
This lesson plan will introduce students to the history of the forced expulsion of thousands of people from Acadia, the Romantic look back at the tragedy in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous epic poem Evangeline and the heroine's adoption as an Acadian cultural figure, and Maine's Acadian community today, along with their relations with Acadian New Brunswick and Nova Scotia residents and others in the Acadian Diaspora. Students will read and discuss primary documents, compare and contrast Le Grand Dérangement to other forced expulsions in Maine history and discuss the significance of cultural survival amidst hardships brought on by treaties, wars, and legislation.

Lesson Plan

Gov. William King, ca. 1890

Bicentennial Lesson Plan

Maine Governors

Grade Level: Postsecondary Content Area: Social Studies
Students will learn about the people who have occupied the office of Governor and how the Office of Governor operates. The students will understand the different hats and relationships that the Governor has.

Lesson Plan

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ca. 1850

Longfellow Studies: Celebrity's Picture - Using Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Portraits to Observe Historic Changes

Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 Content Area: Social Studies, Visual & Performing Arts
"In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?" Englishman Sydney Smith's 1820 sneer irked Americans, especially writers such as Irving, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Maine's John Neal, until Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's resounding popularity successfully rebuffed the question. The Bowdoin educated Portland native became the America's first superstar poet, paradoxically loved especially in Britain, even memorialized at Westminster Abbey. He achieved international celebrity with about forty books or translations to his credit between 1830 and 1884, and, like superstars today, his public craved pictures of him. His publishers consequently commissioned Longfellow's portrait more often than his family, and he sat for dozens of original paintings, drawings, and photos during his lifetime, as well as sculptures. Engravers and lithographers printed replicas of the originals as book frontispiece, as illustrations for magazine or newspaper articles, and as post cards or "cabinet" cards handed out to admirers, often autographed. After the poet's death, illustrators continued commercial production of his image for new editions of his writings and coloring books or games such as "Authors," and sculptors commemorated him with busts in Longfellow Schools or full-length figures in town squares. On the simple basis of quantity, the number of reproductions of the Maine native's image arguably marks him as the country's best-known nineteenth century writer. TEACHERS can use this presentation to discuss these themes in art, history, English, or humanities classes, or to lead into the following LESSON PLANS. The plans aim for any 9-12 high school studio art class, but they can also be used in any humanities course, such as literature or history. They can be adapted readily for grades 3-8 as well by modifying instructional language, evaluation rubrics, and targeted Maine Learning Results and by selecting materials for appropriate age level.