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Author: DeAnne Curran
Objects, Artifacts, & Specimens
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. The donor purchased […]
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Objects, Artifacts, & Specimens
New Signs Serve Up a “Happy Hit of Flavoring”
The Maine State Museum recently acquired two rare Moxie advertising signs. Designated as Maine’s official state soft drink in 2005, this infamous drink has acquired a cult following over the last 139 years. Originally called Moxie Nerve Food, the inventor, Dr. Augustin Thompson was born and raised in Union, Maine. After serving in the Maine […]
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Objects, Artifacts, & Specimens
Who is the Man with the Eyepatch?
Remembering the C. F. Hathaway Company, Waterville Maine 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 so that the […]
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