[expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration in American Culture 1. Mapping the Arctic 2. The Franklin Search 3. The Art of Exploration 4. Triumph and Tragedy 5. The Pearys [/expand] In the nineteenth centu...
[expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration in American Culture 1. Mapping the Arctic 2. The Franklin Search 3. The Art of Exploration 4. Triumph and Tragedy 5. The Pearys [/expand] By the nineteenth centu...
[expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration in American Culture 1. Mapping the Arctic 2. The Franklin Search 3. The Art of Exploration 4. Triumph and Tragedy 5. The Pearys [/expand] Long before mariners ex...
How the world saw Portland was shaped in large measure by the pictorial press, a popular new medium in the 1850s. While earlier publications provided few timely illustrations, these magazines featured illustrations as a means of weekly communication ...
In 1850, the City of Portland invested $80,000 in creating a new waterfront. This resulted in large brick and granite business blocks and warehouses along Commercial Street. The owners of these new structures featured their businesses on bill heads t...
The Portland peninsula was represented twice in the bird's eye views that were so popular in the United States after the Civil War. These bird's eye views provide historians with invaluable visual records for reconstructing an accurate representation...
During the mid-nineteenth century, several ambitious projects constituted a complete rethinking of how Portland's waterfront could support commercial growth. Taking advantage of the port's year round ice-free harbor and the city's strong trade relati...
Phoenix Park, rededicated Lincoln Park in 1909 as shown on this map [51], was the city's first formal park. It was built as a fire break after the great fire in the midst of what was then one of the city's densest neighborhoods. The park featured a c...
Portland changed dramatically overnight as a result of the Great Fire of July 4, 1866. The winds were high and the tide was out when the fire began, thus creating ideal conditions for the fire to spread from west to east, devastating much of the city...
These three maps [16, 17, 18] were produced as fold-outs to be inserted in Portland city directories first published in 1823. The first map in this series [16], produced by Abel Bowen, became the benchmark against which future directory maps were mea...
