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LC Subject Heading: Observatories

Historical Items

These results include photographs, documents, letters, paintings, artifacts, and many other kinds of Maine related items from collections around the state and elsewhere.


Item 103792

Mount Washington Observatory, New Hampshire, 1936

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1936-12-15 Location: Sargent's Purchase, NH Media: Glass Negative

Item 169

Signals at the Portland Observatory, 1846

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1846 Location: Portland Media: Art on paper

Item 171

View of the Whig Pavilion, Mount Joy, Portland, 1837

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1837-09-27 Location: Portland Media: Hand colored engraving, phototransparency

Item 173

Notes related to the construction of the Portland Observatory, ca. 1807

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1807 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper, color transparency

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Item 40307

Portland Observatory, ca. 1936

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1936 Location: Portland Media: Paper, paint, wood, glass

Item 4144

Munjoy Hill in the Forties, Portland, 1895

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1840 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 14866

Slopes of Munjoy Hill, Portland, as it appeared ca. 1840, created in 1901

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1840 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

Item 16876

Portland Harbor chart, ca. 1825

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1825 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

Item 18697

Panorama, S.E. View of Portland in 1832

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1831 Location: Portland; South Portland Media: Lithograph

Item 5635

Portland street lights, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 14860

Bird's eye view of Munjoy Hill and the islands in 1845

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1845 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper