Keywords: travelling men
Item 21706
Two Men in a Car, Sanford, ca. 1914
Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1914 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative
Item 9320
Military pass for H.L. Prince and two men, Dec. 28, 1862
Contributed by: Cumberland Historical Society Date: 1862-12-28 Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
Putting Men to Work, Saving Trees
While many Mainers were averse to accepting federal relief money during the Great Depression of the 1930s, young men eagerly joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of President Franklin Roosevelt's most popular programs. The Maine Forest Service supervised the work of many of the camps.
Exhibit
The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History
After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner <em>Bowdoin,</em> which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.
Site Page
"… along this coast in 1604, naming islands as he traveled. Champlain’s early map gives this island the name “Brule-Cote,” meaning “Burnt-hill” in his…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - Square shouldered cape and suit ensemble, ca. 1943 - Page 1 of 3
"An avid world traveler, perhaps Lucile Atkinson Baker (1892-1976) wore the suit on one of her many trips."
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
Story
USCG Boot Camp Experience, Vietnam War era
by Peter S. Morgan, Jr.
"Letters to the Wall" Memorial Day