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Item 100434

Eugenia Powers with deer, Schoodic, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Norcross Heritage Trust Date: circa 1900 Location: TA R7 WELS Media: Photographic print

Item 15296

C.H. Randall with deer, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Media: Lantern slide

Item 23698

C.H. Randall with white deer, Greenville, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Greenville Media: Lantern slide

Online Exhibits

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Indians at the Centennial

Passamaquoddy Indians from Washington County traveled to Portland in 1920 to take part in the Maine Centennial Exposition. They set up an "Indian Village" at Deering Oaks Park.

Exhibit

Umbazooksus & Beyond

Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.

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Portland civil engineers surveying Pearl Street sewer, Portland, 1887

From Sewers to Skylines: William S. Edwards's 1887 Photo Album

William S. Edwards (1830-1918) was a civil engineer who worked for the City of Portland from 1876-1906. Serving as First Assistant to Chief Engineer William A. Goodwin, then to Commissioner George N. Fernald, Edwards was a fixture in City Hall for 30 consecutive years, proving indispensable throughout the terms of 15 Mayors of Portland, including all six of those held by James Phineas Baxter. Edwards made significant contributions to Portland, was an outstanding mapmaker and planner, and his works continue to benefit historians.

Site Pages

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Loading deer on the train at Strong station, ca. 1915

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation

"The deer were a lot bigger back then because the big ones got away; they were smart. There were many more hunters then, and now hunters are a dying…"

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Copy of Surry and Ellsworth map, ca. 1880

Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"Patten's Bay, Patten's Pond and Patten's Pond Stream were named after him. In Samuel Wasson's Journal of East Surry, he attributes Jonathan Flye, an…"