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Historical Items

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Item 100510

Betsey H. Carsley request for information on brothers, Saco, 1889

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1889 Location: Saco Media: Ink on paper

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Item 61634

Request for information about missing soldier, Princeton, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864 Location: Princeton Media: Ink on paper

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Item 73966

Gen. Shepley inquiry about soldier, New Orleans, 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: Baton Rouge; New Orleans Media: Ink on paper

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Online Exhibits

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Art of the People: Folk Art in Maine

For many different reasons people saved and carefully preserved the objects in this exhibit. Eventually, along with the memories they hold, the objects were passed to the Maine Historical Society. Object and memory, serve as a powerful way to explore history and to connect to the lives of people in the past.

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Valentines

Valentines Day cards have long been a way to express feelings of romance or love for family or friends. These early Valentines Day cards suggest the ways in which the expression of those sentiments has changed over time.

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Among the Lungers: Treating TB

Tuberculosis -- or consumption as it often was called -- claimed so many lives and so threatened the health of communities that private organizations and, by 1915, the state, got involved in TB treatment. The state's first tuberculosis sanatorium was built on Greenwood Mountain in Hebron and introduced a new philosophy of treatment.

Site Pages

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Blue Hill, Maine - Jonathan Fisher: Unlocking the Person Beyond the Parson

"… He then returned to Massachusetts to wed Miss Dolly Battle and assumed his ministry. Beginning with his student days at Harvard, and continuing for…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Bangor Commercial article on World's Fair contest

"John Martin and Miss Mabel Martin leave on this morning’s train for the World’s Fair, making a short stop at Portland on the way.""

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Lincoln, Maine - Frederick A. Edwards

"and Mrs. Chandler Bruce. Mr. Edwards’ second wife was Miss Hattie Crockett who survived him. Quite a few years before his death, Fred was interviewed…"

My Maine Stories

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2020 Sheltering in Place Random Notes During COVID-19
by Phyllis Merriam, LCSW

Sheltering-in-Place personal experiences in mid-coast Maine (Rockland) during March and April 2020

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Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey

MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR

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Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis

The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.