Primary source · painting
Cushing Island, Portland Harbor
[DOC]DocumentedMMN #52394
An oil, not a photograph: useful for the hotel's setting and silhouette, unreliable for measurement.
Provenance
- Date
- ca. 1870
- Creator
- Unattributed
- Held by
- Maine Memory Network / Maine Historical Society
- Identifier
- MMN #52394
- Rights
- Rights held by the contributing institution. See record page.
No features on this image have been positively identified yet. Annotations are added only where a feature can be named from evidence, not from resemblance.
Follow this evidence
- 01Stand at Ottawa House GroundsPlace · Ottawa House Grounds — Resort · 1858–1917
- 02Read the whole layer: The Summer IslandLayer · The Summer Island — Layer 03 · 1858 → 1917
- 03What happened in 1858?Event · Lemuel Cushing consolidates the island; the Ottawa House era begins — 1858
- 04Stand at Levett's Cellar & Spicer's CovePlace · Levett's Cellar & Spicer's Cove — Colonial · 1623