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    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.

    Additional Files
    1581B_WTM.JPG (11854 kB)
    Bowdoin College, from south- incl. Brunswick, circa1941
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    Keywords

    Brunswick, Me., Bowdoin College

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