Captions List for Maine Photos

Word index of all photos (without thumbnails) covering Maine: travel attractions, architecturally-significant buildings, parks, monuments, museums.

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  • Augusta: Maine State Capitol of Hallowell granite with central section (1829) & wings added in 1911.
  • Augusta: Front facade of State Capitol (1829) with columns & pediment.
  • Augusta: Dome of State Capitol replaced Bullfinch's original in 1911.
  • Augusta: Golden figure of Wisdom with lantern by W. Clark Noble on State Capitol.
  • Augusta: Facade of State Capitol.
  • Augusta: State Capitol dome over village houses.
  • Augusta: Interior of State Capitol dome.
  • Augusta: House chamber in State Capitol.
  • Augusta: Senate chamber in State Capitol.
  • Augusta: Portrait of Abraham Lincoln by Albion Harris Bicknell (1868) in Maine State Capitol.
  • Augusta: Portrait of Hannibal Hamlin by Alfred E. Smith (1901) in Maine State Capitol. Hamlin was Lincoln's Vice-President after serving as a Maine governor & congressman.
  • Augusta: Portrait of Joshua L. Chamberlain, Civil War hero, Maine governor & Bowdoin College president by Joseph B. Kahill (1914) in Maine State Capitol.
  • Augusta: Portrait of Sir William Pepperrell, commander at the siege of Fort Louisburg, by Henry Cheever Pratt (1862) in Maine State Capitol.
  • Augusta: Terra Cotta relief of volunteers returning from the Civil War, a duplicate in Maine's State Capitol of the frieze on DC's Pension building.
  • Augusta: Maine's capitol building seen from the governor's garden.
  • Augusta: Blaine Mansion, home of Maine's governors.
  • Augusta: Blaine Mansion front door.
  • Augusta: Blaine Mansion from capitol building.
  • Augusta: Blaine Mansion garden side.
  • Augusta: Rail bridge over Kennebec River.
  • Augusta: Road bridge over Kennebec River.
  • Augusta: Buildings along Kennebec River.
  • Augusta: Former federal building above Kennebec River.
  • Augusta: Water Street is Augusta's core.
  • Augusta: Former city hall.
  • Augusta: Augusta's new city building.
  • Augusta: Old Fort Western (1754) is the US's oldest surviving wooded fort.
  • Augusta: Log blockhouse of Old Fort Western put up as a trading post to settle the Kennebec River Valley.
  • Augusta: Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe).
  • Augusta: Maine State Library & Museum.
  • Augusta: Lion Locomotive (1846) pulled lumber to sawmills for nearly fifty years in Maine State Museum.
  • Augusta: Lion Locomotive details of drive wheels in Maine State Museum.
  • Augusta: Gasoline Lombard log hauler first introduced as steam-powered machine in 1901 which revolutionized the lumber industry in Maine State Museum.
  • Augusta: Alvin O. Lombard invented the moving track in 1901 for his log hauler which today serves on tractors & military vehicles.
  • Augusta: Early vertical saw mill mechanism in Maine State Museum.
  • Augusta: Clapboard saw (c1850), invented by Robert Eastman & Josiah Jaquith in 1820, changed production of building cladding from splitting trees with an ax to rip-cutting logs held on a radial axis in Maine State Museum.
  • Augusta: Mannequin fixing ship's rigging in Maine State Museum.
  • Augusta: Products of Maine's sardine industry in Maine State Museum.
  • Augusta: Ice box before refrigerators were invented in Maine State Museum.
  • Augusta: Equipment used in cutting ice blocks for use in refrigeration when ice was still obtained from lakes in Maine State Museum.
  • Augusta: Crane for lifting granite blocks in quarry industry in Maine State Museum.
  • Augusta: Antique carriage for carrying granite blocks in Maine State Museum.
  • Augusta: Early industrial loom in Maine State Museum.
  • Augusta: Cobblers bench & tools in Maine State Museum.
  • Augusta: Rawnsley Runabout automobile (1904-5) in Maine State Museum.
  • Augusta: Side view of Runabout made in Maine by Hollon Rawnsley in Maine State Museum.
  • Augusta: Burrowes Model-E Tourabout (1908) by E.T. Burrowes Co. of Portland in Maine State Museum.
  • Augusta: Ceramic containers (1854-5) (cream pot & jug) by Ballard & Brothers, Gardener, ME, in Maine State Museum.
  • Augusta: Preserve pots (c1815-78) by Thomas T. Kendrick of Hollis Center, ME, in Maine State Museum.
  • Augusta: Stoneware pottery (c1835-50) by Orcutt & Crafts of Portland, ME, in Maine State Museum.
  • Augusta: Baked bean pot (1891-7) by E. Swasey & Co. in Maine State Museum.
  • Augusta: Glass collection in Maine State Museum.
  • Augusta: Collection of glass oil lamps in Maine State Museum.
  • Augusta: Clear glass pitcher (c1813-30) signed H. Lilley probably by a South Boston firm in Maine State Museum.
  • Augusta: Amberina glass champagne pitcher & tumblers (c1883-8) probably by New England Glass Works, Cambridge, MA, in Maine State Museum.
  • Augusta: Marbled pressed glass (c1886-91) probably by Challinor, Taylor & Co. Tarentum, PA, in Maine State Museum.
  • Augusta: Chocolate glass mustard pot in shape of fish (1900-3) by Charles E. Beam of Indiana Tumbler & Goblet Co., Greentown, IN, in Maine State Museum.
  • Augusta: Pressed Carnival-glass pitcher (1911) by Fenton Art Glass Company, Williamstown, WV, in Maine State Museum.
  • Augusta: Green engraved Console set of bowl & covered glasses (1918-38) made in Czechoslovakia copying antique Bohemian design in Maine State Museum.
  • Augusta: Ruby-stained souvenir glass (1875-1910) which was engraved by local craftsmen with names of visitors to fairs or tourist attractions in Maine State Museum.
  • Augusta: Congressional Medal of Honor awarded to Moses C. Hanscom in 1864 cast by Wm. Wilson & Son of Philadelphia in Maine State Museum.
  • York: First Parish Church (1747) was the fourth building of this parish founded in 1635. The building was turned & updated in (1882).
  • York: Spire & clock of First Parish Church.
  • York: York Town Hall (1832 & 73) & First Parish Church.
  • York: Old Goal (1719) which served as Maine's jail up to the American Revolution with a gambrel roof added in the 1800s.
  • York: Old Goal which retains not only cells but also the jailer's family living quarters.
  • York: Emerson-Wilcox house (1740 + 1760 + 1820) still under a 999 year lease with annual rent of 16 shillings.
  • York: Jefferds' Tavern (1754) was moved to York in 1939.
  • York: School building (early 18th C).
  • York: Wooden church now the village market.
    • All photos on this page are originals by & copyrighted by Jim Steinhart.
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