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Item 6324

An Evening with French composers choral program, 1899

Contributed by: Portland Public Library Date: 1899-03-20 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 42245

'The Third Maine, A Patriotic March-Song,' 1918

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1918 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 116516

Extract from a Map of the British and French Dominions in North America, 1755

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1755 Media: Ink on paper
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George French dorm room, Bates College, ca. 1901

Maine Through the Eyes of George W. French

George French, a native of Kezar Falls and graduate of Bates College, worked at several jobs before turning to photography as his career. He served for many years as photographer for the Maine Development Commission, taking pictures intended to promote both development and tourism.

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Camp Tekakwitha brochure, Leeds, ca. 1940

From French Canadians to Franco-Americans

French Canadians who emigrated to the Lewiston-Auburn area faced discrimination as children and adults -- such as living in "Little Canada" tenements and being ridiculed for speaking French -- but also adapted to their new lives and sustained many cultural traditions.

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400 years of New Mainers

Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.