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Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man and a poet of New England conscience. He was influenced by his ancestry and his Portland boyhood home and experience.
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Drawing Together: Art of the Longfellows
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is best know as a poet, but he also was accomplished in drawing and music. He shared his love of drawing with most of his siblings. They all shared the frequent activity of drawing and painting with their children. The extended family included many professional as well as amateur artists, and several architects.
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Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland
The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.
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Music in Maine - Longfellow Family Music
"… I Have Saved Thee, and Hark! The Goddess Diana. Longfellow instruments Longfellow estate accounting, Portland, 1836Maine Historical Society…"
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Informal family photos often include family pets -- but formal, studio portraits and paintings also often feature one person and one pet, in formal attire and pose.
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Art of the People: Folk Art in Maine
For many different reasons people saved and carefully preserved the objects in this exhibit. Eventually, along with the memories they hold, the objects were passed to the Maine Historical Society. Object and memory, serve as a powerful way to explore history and to connect to the lives of people in the past.
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<i>Of Note: Maine Sheet Music</i> features captivating covers of original sheet music along with stories about Maine connections to the songs. Before people had easy access to popular music from records, radios, and the internet, they played songs of the day on instruments at home, using sheet music purchased at music stores. Iconic Maine subjects like lobsters, pine trees, and winter were perfect for lyrics sung by luminaries like Rudy Vallée of Westbrook, and intricate artwork of Maine's landscape graced the sheet music covers.
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Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - People of the Wadsworth-Longfellow House
"People of the Wadsworth-Longfellow House Wadsworth-Longfellow House, Portland, ca. 1880Maine Historical Society Only two families occupied the…"
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Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Longfellow Era: 1807-1901
"1855NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow (1814-1901) Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow…"
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Bookplates Honor Annie Louise Cary
A summer resident of Wayne collected more than 3,000 bookplates to honor Maine native and noted opera singer Annie Louise Cary and to support the Cary Memorial Library.
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Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - Researching Your Home
"… Peleg Wadsworth deed of land to Stephen Longfellow, Portland, 1827Maine Historical Society Every building has a history."
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Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Wadsworth Era: 1786-1807
"The poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was named in his memory. Alexander Scammell Wadsworth (1790–1851) was the ninth child of Peleg and Elizabeth…"
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A City Awakes: Arts and Artisans of Early 19th Century Portland
Portland's growth from 1786 to 1860 spawned a unique social and cultural environment and fostered artistic opportunity and creative expression in a broad range of the arts, which flowered with the increasing wealth and opportunity in the city.
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Port of Portland's Custom House and Collectors of Customs
The collector of Portland was the key to federal patronage in Maine, though other ports and towns had collectors. Through the 19th century, the revenue was the major source of Federal Government income. As in Colonial times, the person appointed to head the custom House in Casco Bay was almost always a leading community figure, or a well-connected political personage.
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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Acknowledgements
"… Historical Society Debra Verrier Barry Baxter Memorial Library Bowdoin College Library, Special Collections Burden Collection Joyce Butler The…"
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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Neal Dow
"… purchased with funds from the Edward Foley Memorial Fund 1997.245 When Civil War came, the Napoleon of Temperance took his campaign to the front by…"
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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Society Copes
"Gould's memories of 1920, Yankee Storekeeper , 1946 X Medicinal Mount Vernon Pure Rye Whiskey, ca. 1925 Courtesy of the Charles E."
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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Women Leaders and Temperance
"X Frances E. Willard Memorial Postcard 1898 Courtesy of the Charles E. Burden Collection X Which Shall it Be: The Work of The Mill or the…"
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Music in Maine - B-flat fife, ca. 1860
"Six smaller holes tone towards end and larger blow hole opposite. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."
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Music in Maine - Drumsticks, 1861
"… were normally made from rosewood, and were 16 to 17 inches long. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."
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These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.
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Music in Maine - Drum, Portland, ca. 1854
"… Theodore Ingalls King (1854-1906) of Portland and Washington D.C. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."
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Music in Maine - Civil War drum, ca. 1861
"… knew that without the drum, commanders lost contact with their troops. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."
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Music in Maine - Kimball Drum, ca. 1860
"He was mustered out on July 27, 1864. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."