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Item 103637

Unidentified man, ca. 1865

Unidentified man, ca. 1865

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1845 Location: Readfield Media: Tintype

Item 120

Aviator Jones Hangar, Old Orchard Beach, ca. 1920

Aviator Jones Hangar, Old Orchard Beach, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1920 Location: Old Orchard Beach Media: Glass Negative

Item 5539

Dorothea L. Dix, ca. 1870

Dorothea L. Dix, ca. 1870

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1870 Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Jack Lawrence, Saco, on Bicycle, ca. 1900

A Craze for Cycling

Success at riding a bike mirrored success in life. Bicycling could bring families together. Bicycling was good for one's health. Bicycling was fun. Bicycles could go fast. Such were some of the arguments made to induce many thousands of people around Maine and the nation to take up the new pastime at the end of the nineteenth century.

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Cumston Hall Auditorium Seating, Monmouth, ca. 1900

Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages

"… and Faust in Biddeford, capitalizing on the opera craze in America during the late 1800s. Princess Watahwaso By Jason Pardilla Lucy…"

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Dress made by Martha Willey Riley, Cherryfield, ca. 1912

Fashionable Maine: early twentieth century clothing

Maine residents kept pace with the dramatic shift in women’s dress that occurred during the short number of years preceding and immediately following World War I. The long restrictive skirts, stiff collars, body molding corsets and formal behavior of earlier decades quickly faded away and the new straight, dropped waist easy-to-wear clothing gave mobility and freedom of movement in tune with the young independent women of the casual, post-war jazz age generation.

Site Pages

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John Meeker's Ford, Scarborough Beach, ca. 1903

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 4 of 4

"By the spring of 1912, an automobile craze had hit the state and the number of cars in Maine had quadrupled."

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John Martin in Spanish cloak, Bangor, 1846

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's Journal

"… credit and of money itself as well as the 1830s craze of land speculation all affected Bangor and John Martin -- and all appear within the pages of…"

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Biplane and pilots, Old Orchard Beach, ca. 1924

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Aviation

"… a landing strip and runway for the post war craze of flying. It was also an ideal landing spot for long distance Atlantic flights, there was no…"

My Maine Stories

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C19 on Pine Point Beach

C19 on Pine Point Beach
by Beth, Scarborough

Cancer patient experience during pandemic