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2019.047.1 - Cup & Saucer
Ceramic cup and saucer. Painted with orange flowers. Blue lines along rims. Sticker on bottom of cup reads: "SP36SCKKT Leeds paste cup/saucer fluted floral repair to cup $150.00."
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2019.048.1 - Cup & Saucer
Ceramic cup and saucer with painted blue and black peacock in front of green, leafy background. Sticker on bottom of cup reads "5/06 ILL SP431 Pool & Pook Inc 677."
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2019.049.1 - Bowl
Small, shallow bowl. Interior sides decorated with draping wheat stalks and cut out lattice work.
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2019.050.1 - Trinket
Small gold eagle ornament. Rod extending from the base to be fastened to something.
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2019.051.1 - Painting
Miniature profile in watercolor of a woman wearing a light blue dress with white ruffled neckline. Her hair is held up with a comb and she is wearing gold earrings. Background is painted grey-blue. According to information on the back of the portrait, the painting was examined by Frank Ganci, and antique decoration specialist in New Jersey, and Jean Lipman originally identified the work as Porter's.
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2019.054.1 - Newspaper
Reproduction of Scientific American Vol. I, no. 1. Published by Rufus Porter & Co. in New York on August 28, 1845. Featured article: Improved Railroad Cars.
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2019.056.1 - Postcard
Postcard of Outlet Highland Lake, Bridgton, ME. Image shows a two story building near the center in the middleground with a body of water and what appears to be a dam in the foreground. Exhibit label: "Antique Postcard, 'Outlet Highland Lake, Bridgton, ME.' Tichnor Brothers, Inc. of Boston, MA. Postmarked 1943 and written by a young woman who may have been working at a summer camp in Bridgton to her family in Brookline, MA. Earliest photograp...
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2019.057.1 - Jug
Partially glazed clay jug with lid and handle. Likely Kittson Pottery. Unknown origin.
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2020.001.1 - Silhouette
Silhouette of Colonel Munroe (10/28/1742-10/30/1827). Reproduction. Original done by William King. Munroe was a soldier in the American Revolution and fought in the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
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2020.001.2 - Silhouette
Silhouette of Mrs. Munroe, wife of Colonel William Munroe. Reproduction. Original done by William King.
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2020.002.1 - Book
Book entitled "Scientific American Home-Owners Handbook." Published by Scientific American Publishing Company, Munn & Company, New York, 1924. Managing editior of the publication at the time was Austin C. Lescarboura. Information on the book: "A vast fund of useful information for the man who is planning to buy or build a home, and for that same man when he becomes a home-owner in fact as well as in desire." Sticker inside front cover: The Corner...
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2020.003.1 - Painting
Miniature portrait attributed to Rufus Porter of Mary Gorham Irish. Profile of a woman wearing a blue dress tied at the back of the neck. Irish is wearing a pearl necklace and one hoop earring can be seen. Individual strands of hair are falling down across the side of her face and forehead. Portrait is in a gold-painted wooden frame. Painting done on cardboard. Per owner, painted May 11, 1819 in Gorham, Maine when the subject was 17 years old. ...
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2020.004.1 - Painting
Watercolor miniature portrait of Nathan Peabody Ames (1803-1847) painted in Chelmsford, MA. Ames worked for his father at a blacksmith shop when this portrait was painted. Shortly after, he moved to Chicopee Falls, MA and founded a manufacturing company that made artillery, swords, and cutlery. Like Porter, he had no real formal education but possessed a knack for mechanical genius. Ames' health deteriorated in the mid-1840's, causing his brother...
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2020.005.1 - Book
Report containing testimony by Rufus Porter in front of Congress regarding an application for an invention created by A.W. Whitney. Porter's involvement as a witness describes his having been in the employ of Mr. Whitney to examine the particulars of an instance in which the latter's application for an invention had been rejected. Porter describes having traveled from New York to Washington, where he provided this Congressional committee with his...
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2020.006.1 - Harpoon
Harpoon tip found on donor's former property at 47 Wichita Lane in Bridgton, along the shore of Long Lake. Per donor: Circa 1820, the tip contains a sharp edge on both sides. It has a pivot flange to prevent the harpoon from coming back out once in the whale. Since the tip was sharp on both sides, it tended to cut itself loose from movement of the shaft wiggling back and forth. It was discontinued after about 10 years.
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2020.007.1 - Newspaper
Scientific American, Volume LXIV, no. 18. Published by Munn & Company. Published May 2, 1891. Featured invention: Victor Bicycles.
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2020.007.2 - Newspaper
Scientific American, Volume LXIV, no. 20. Published by Munn & Company. Published May 16, 1891. Featured invention: The Broadway and Seventh Avenue Cable Road.
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2020.007.3 - Newspaper
Scientific American, Volume LXXI, no. 15. Published by Munn & Company. Published October 13, 1894. Featured invention: The New York City Water Supply - The New Dam at Cornell.
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2020.007.4 - Newspaper
Scientific American, Volume XCVII, no. 12. Published by Munn & Company. Published September 21, 1907. Featured invention: The Jersey Tunnel Station of the Hudson Companies.
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2020.007.5 - Newspaper
Scientific American, Volume XCVII, no. 26. Published by Munn & Company. Published September 21, 1907. Featured inventor: Kelvin.
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