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Item 135945

Barclay Collection Correspondence, January-March, 1798

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1798 Location: Saint John, NB, Canada Media: Ink on Paper
This record contains 60 images.

Item 135952

Barclay Collection Correspondence, 1816

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1816 Location: St. Andrews, NB, Canada Media: Ink on Paper
This record contains 46 images.

Item 82153

Little Canada School, Lewiston, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: circa 1900 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print

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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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Third phase, burning of Old South Church, Bath, 1854

Irish Immigrants in Nineteenth Century Maine

With the popularity of all things Irish in modern America, many people have forgotten the difficulties faced by nineteenth century Irish immigrants.

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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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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 2 of 2

"VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) Pew payment receipt, Biddeford, 1806, 1807, 1810Biddeford Historical Society…"

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Copy of Major Phillips sale of lands to Richard Russell, Biddeford, 1673

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"… in 1716-7 around the falls, and Scots-Irish immigrants arrived in greater numbers throughout the 1740's."

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Opera Company's Tenth Anniversary festival schedule, Surry, 1994

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"… pianist, Zen teacher, son of Russian immigrants, witness to the aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, and Surry resident--wanted to…"