Title

Bowdoin College, ca.1941

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Creator

Collection

Portland Press Herald Still-Film Negatives Collection

Document Type

Still Image

Call number of Original

1581A

Contributing Institution

Portland Public Library Special Collections & Archives

Location

Maine, USA

Creation Date

1941

Format of Original

5 x 7" gelatin silver negative

Description

Aerial view of the Bowdoin College campus quad, from southwest. Bath Road at upper left. Pickard Theater and Mary Frances Searles Science building at left. Walker Art Building (Bowdoin College Museum of Art) at center. Bowdoin College Chapel and Appleton Hall at top center. Hubbard Hall and College street at right.
McKeen Street in left foreground. Maine Street in foreground.

Bowdoin College was founded in 1794, and named after Massachusetts Governor James Bowdoin. At the time, Maine was a district of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Early graduates include Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joshua L. Chamberlain, and President Franklin Pierce.

Photo circa1941

See Additional Files link, below, for ca.1941 general aerial view of Bowdoin College campus from south, with towns of Brunswick and Topsham in background.

Recommended Citation

"Bowdoin College, ca.1941" (1941). Aerial Views - Portland Press Herald Still Film Negatives. 62.
https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/pphnegs_images_aerial/62