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Letter from Alonzo Flack to Sarah Sanborn, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864 Location: East Readfield; Claverack Media: Ink on paper

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'The Song of Hiawatha' illustration, ca. 1880

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1880 Media: Ink on paper

The Mainspring of Fashion

The mainspring of fashion is the process whereby members of one class imitate the styles of another, who in turn are driven to ever new expedients of fashionable change.

Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man and a poet of New England conscience. He was influenced by his ancestry and his Portland boyhood home and experience.