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Historical Items

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Item 19758

Rideouts at East Grand Lake, ca. 1950

Contributed by: An individual through East Grand School Date: circa 1950 Location: Danforth Media: Postcard

Item 7505

Indian thimble, ca. 1800

Contributed by: Norridgewock Historical Society Date: circa 1800 Location: Norridgewock Media: Animal skin

Item 20542

Trappers' Cabin, Stockholm, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Stockholm Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Stockholm Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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CODE RED: Climate, Justice & Natural History Collections

Explore topics around climate change by reuniting collections from one of the nation's earliest natural history museums, the Portland Society of Natural History. The exhibition focuses on how museums collect, and the role of humans in creating changes in society, climate, and biodiversity.

Exhibit

Northern Threads: Civil War-era clothing

An exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads, Part 1," featuring American Civil War civilian and military clothing, 1860 to 1869.

Exhibit

Gifts From Gluskabe: Maine Indian Artforms

According to legend, the Great Spirit created Gluskabe, who shaped the world of the Native People of Maine, and taught them how to use and respect the land and the resources around them. This exhibit celebrates the gifts of Gluskabe with Maine Indian art works from the early nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Marion Sanborn

"… up and put them in the box because they’re all skin and bones. So I didn’t like that either. Anna: So did you end up marrying a farmer? Marion: No…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"When it was time for the foxes to be skinned, they were skinned in the late fall. There were three kinds of foxes that were on a Gordon fox farm…"