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Item 11081

Maxie Anderson, Presque Isle, 1981

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1981-08-11 Location: Presque Isle Media: Photographic print

Item 11106

Houlton Fair balloon demonstration, 1914

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1914-08-25 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

Item 101127

First balloon ascension, Bangor, 1857

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Date: 1857 Location: Bangor Media: Ink and watercolor on paper

Tax Records

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Item 39015

632-652 Congress Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Devisees of James Cunningham Use: Hotel

Online Exhibits

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Leavitt family coat-dress, Eastport, ca. 1830

Northern Threads: The rise and fall of the gigot sleeve

A themed exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads Part I," featuring the balloon-like gigot sleeve of the 1830s.

Exhibit

Lillian Nordica: Farmington Diva

Lillian Norton, known as Nordica, was one of the best known sopranos in America and the world at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. She was a native of Farmington.

Exhibit

Mellie Dunham's dance band, Norway, ca. 1925

Remembering Mellie Dunham: Snowshoe Maker and Fiddler

Alanson Mellen "Mellie" Dunham and his wife Emma "Gram" Dunham were well-known musicians throughout Maine and the nation in the early decades of the 20th century. Mellie Dunham also received fame as a snowshoe maker.