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Item 33470

Delegates to Federation of Women's Clubs meeting, Saco, 1911

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1911 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print

Item 31633

Thursday Club membership, Biddeford, 1929

Contributed by: Biddeford Historical Society Date: 1929 Location: Biddeford Media: Ink on paper

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Item 78679

WLU 85th anniversary play, Portland, 1974

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1974 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Students on porch, Farmington State Normal School, ca. 1928

We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.

Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.

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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.

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Port of Portland's Custom House and Collectors of Customs

The collector of Portland was the key to federal patronage in Maine, though other ports and towns had collectors. Through the 19th century, the revenue was the major source of Federal Government income. As in Colonial times, the person appointed to head the custom House in Casco Bay was almost always a leading community figure, or a well-connected political personage.