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What’s New in the Collections
The Maine State Museum’s collections will take you everywhere! Click on the links at left to see stories about new artifacts and specimens recently added to the collections.
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The latest at the Maine State Museum
Recently Discovered Charts Link Maine to Slave Economy
Sixteen nautical charts, discovered walled up in a downtown Brunswick business’s upstairs room, were recently donated to the Maine State Museum. The charts, used by Brunswick sea captain and shipping agent Robert T. Giveen (1808-1862), were published between 1831 and 1858, and detail shipping between European and American Atlantic and Gulf ports.
New Signs Serve Up a “Happy Hit of Flavoring”
The Maine State Museum recently acquired two rare Moxie advertising signs. This infamous Maine soft drink has acquired a cult following over the last 139 years.
Who is the Man with the Eyepatch?
National media celebrated the C. F. Hathaway Company as America’s oldest and last major shirt manufacturer when it closed its Waterville factory in 2002. Over twenty years later, the Maine State Museum received a donation of dozens of Hathaway shirts and the company archives.
