LC Subject Heading: Art
Item 26536
Abigail Babson theorem purse, ca. 1820
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1820 Media: Tempera on velvet
Item 104432
Drawing of a woman on a tintype, ca. 1870
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1840 Media: Tintype
Item 151307
Lorenzo De Medici Sweat Memorial, Portland, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1909–1966
Location: Portland; Portland
Client: Portland Society of Art
Architect: John Calvin Stevens
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Item 151308
Lorenzo De Medici Sweat Memorial, Portland, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1909–1965 Location: Portland; Portland Client: Portland Society of Art Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Lesson Plan
What Remains: Learning about Maine Populations through Burial Customs
Grade Level: 6-8
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual & Performing Arts
This lesson plan will give students an overview of how burial sites and gravestone material culture can assist historians and archaeologists in discovering information about people and migration over time. Students will learn how new scholarship can help to dispel harmful archaeological myths, look into the roles of religion and ethnicity in early Maine and New England immigrant and colonial settlements, and discover how to track changes in population and social values from the 1600s to early 1900s based on gravestone iconography and epitaphs.
Lesson Plan
Primary Sources: Daily Life in 1820
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Content Area: Social Studies
This lesson plan will give students the opportunity to explore and analyze primary source documents from the years before, during, and immediately after Maine became the 23rd state in the Union. Through close looking at documents, objects, and art from Maine during and around 1820, students will ask questions and draw informed conclusions about life at the time of statehood.
