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Historical Items

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Item 27979

Jacob Abbott and Fewacres, Farmington, 1903

Jacob Abbott and Fewacres, Farmington, 1903

Contributed by: Farmington Public Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Farmington Media: Engraving, ink on paper

Item 20581

Charlotte Julia Thomas, Portland, 1910

Charlotte Julia Thomas, Portland, 1910

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1910 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 80913

Martha Osgood letter about fabric, dresses, Bar Mills, 1862

Martha Osgood letter about fabric, dresses, Bar Mills, 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: Bar Mills; Standish; Saco; Boston Media: Ink on paper

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Online Exhibits

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ca. 1829

Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man and a poet of New England conscience. He was influenced by his ancestry and his Portland boyhood home and experience.

Exhibit

Silhouette of Zilpah and Stephen Longfellow, ca. 1805

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Longfellow Era: 1807-1901

"By the 1850s, he was a national literary figure. He and his family frequently visited Portland. Anne Longfellow Pierce, Portland, ca."

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Dress made by Martha Willey Riley, Cherryfield, ca. 1912

Fashionable Maine: early twentieth century clothing

Maine residents kept pace with the dramatic shift in women’s dress that occurred during the short number of years preceding and immediately following World War I. The long restrictive skirts, stiff collars, body molding corsets and formal behavior of earlier decades quickly faded away and the new straight, dropped waist easy-to-wear clothing gave mobility and freedom of movement in tune with the young independent women of the casual, post-war jazz age generation.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Bloomfield Academy Building, Skowhegan, 2003

Skowhegan Community History - Bloomfield Academy

"In 1815 there was a proposal made to the Maine Literary and Theological Institution offering Bloomfield, now Skowhegan, as the site of a new college…"

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Fales Edgarton House, Thomaston, ca. 1870

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"… gladly rec’d and read, also a copy of Gleason’s Literary Companion for which I feel grateful and would be thankful for one as often as you can send…"

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Enoch Lincoln, Paris, 1827

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"His wife Elizabeth Oakes Smith was a major literary figure in her own right. This ambrotype of Seba Smith was taken by Myron H. Kimball of New York."