Keywords: copies
Item 12782
Lion in the Library, Memorial Hall, ca. 1935
Contributed by: Colby College Special Collections Date: circa 1935 Location: Waterville Media: Photographic print
Item 6049
North Yarmouth Copy of the Declaration of Independence, 1776
Contributed by: Maine State Archives Date: 1776-07-04 Location: Philadelphia Media: Paper
Item 99294
Assessor's Record, 13-15 Oxford Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Percival P. Baxter Agent Use: Shed
Exhibit
Unlocking the Declaration's Secrets
Fewer than 30 copies of the first printing of the Declaration of Independence are known to exist. John Dunlap hurriedly printed copies for distribution to assemblies, conventions, committees and military officers. Authenticating authenticity of the document requires examination of numerous details of the broadside.
Exhibit
Colonial Cartography: The Plymouth Company Maps
The Plymouth Company (1749-1816) managed one of the very early land grants in Maine along the Kennebec River. The maps from the Plymouth Company's collection of records constitute some of the earliest cartographic works of colonial America.
Site Page
Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 1 of 2
"More formal portraits are represented in daguerreotype copies of paintings of Joseph Leland of Saco and Ezekiel Day of Portland."
Site Page
"An ambrotype copy of an early nineteenth century silhouette of an unidentified young woman was made by T.R. Burnham of Bangor in the 1850s."
Story
Story of the "little nun"
by Felicia Garant
My grandmother made a nun's outfit for me
Story
Maine Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum
by Ken Brooks
How the Maine Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum began
Lesson Plan
Longfellow Studies: "Haunted Houses"
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
Longfellow's collection The Courtship of Miles Standish and other Poems was published in 1858. It sold 250,000 copies in two months and over 10.000 copies in London on the first day; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was extremely popular during his lifetime.
"Haunted Houses" is a work from that collection. It is a poem that is especially appealing around Halloween. The poem welcomes the reader to a place where "The spirit-world around the world of sense floats like an atmosphere . . ."
Lesson Plan
Longfellow Studies: The Exile of the People of Longfellow's "Evangeline"
Grade Level: 6-8
Content Area: Social Studies
Other materials needed:
- Copy of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Evangeline"
- Print media and Internet access for research
- Deportation Orders (may use primary document with a secondary source interpretation)
Throughout the course of history there have been many events in which great suffering was inflicted upon innocent people. The story of the Acadian expulsion is one such event. Britain and France, the two most powerful nations of Europe, were at war off and on throughout the 18th century. North America became a coveted prize for both warring nations. The French Acadians of present day Nova Scotia fell victim to great suffering. Even under an oath of allegiance to England, the Acadians were advised that their families were to be deported and their lands confiscated by the English. This event was immortalized by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem "Evangeline", which was published in 1847.
