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Historical Items

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Item 11029

Attempt to set record, Auburn, 1981

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1981-02-23 Location: Auburn; Auburn Media: Photographic print

Item 28296

G.W. Pierce from St. Louis, 1829

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1829 Location: Saint Louis Media: Ink on paper

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Item 140

Thomas Brackett Reed, Portland, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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We Saw Lindbergh!

Following his historic flight across the Atlantic in May 1927, aviator Charles Lindbergh commenced a tour across America, greeted by cheering crowds at every stop. He was a day late for his speaking engagement in Portland, due to foggy conditions. Elise Fellows White wrote in her diary about seeing Lindbergh and his plane.

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - A Call to Temperance

"The wreck of a wagon hauling rum elicited disgust rather than compassion. Rather than attending the wounded riders and their horse, the passengers…"

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Prohibition in Maine in the 1920s

Federal Prohibition took hold of America in 1920 with the passing of the Volstead Act that banned the sale and consumption of all alcohol in the US. However, Maine had the Temperance movement long before anyone was prohibited from taking part in one of America's most popular past times. Starting in 1851, the struggles between the "drys" and the "wets" of Maine lasted for 82 years, a period of time that was everything but dry and rife with nothing but illegal activity.

Site Pages

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Maine's Road to Statehood - The Missouri Compromise: A Moral Dilemma

"… of statehood for Maine, Preble expressed his disgust with the circumstances in which it was eventually achieved.Maine Historical Society In…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Dancing Fraternity, City of Bangor, 1868

"… kill the cheap aristocracy which makes personal disgusts year after year." The bylaw is worded differently at the end, but the sentiment is the…"

My Maine Stories

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My Story of Trauma
by Anonymous (Maine Correction Center)

The process of being incarcerated is traumatic. This is my story.

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John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne

Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.

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Stripped Of More Than Clothing
by Dan Adams

Juvenile strip searches while incarcerated.