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Current Exhibition:The Triumph of the Passenger Ship: Highlights from the Norman H. Morse Ocean Liner Collection, 1870-2010 May 15, 2012 - August 23, 2012The Triumph of the Passenger Ship presents the experience of life aboard these grand vessels through a selection of the Morse Collection of ocean liner ephemera. Norman H. Morse assembled his collection of almost 3,000 pieces over eight decades, and gave it to the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education in 2009. (continued) |
(click on image to view in greater detail) | W. Waud City Hall Portland, Maine Boston: Bricher and Russell Engravers,1860 Lithograph, 16 x 23 cm Courtesy of Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. |
City Hall Portland, Maine Boston: Bricher and Russell Engravers,1860Portland's second City Hall [24] was constructed in 1858-60 at the corner of Congress and Myrtle Streets. This was the site of the former Cumberland County Courthouse, built in 1816, which was demolished to make way for the new municipal building. Burned in the Great Fire of 1866 just six years after completion, the second City Hall's stone and brick walls were used in the rebuilding of the third City Hall, which stood on the site until its destruction by fire in 1908 [postcard #25]. |
