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Keywords: Opening ceremonies

Historical Items

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Item 23669

Opening ceremony, World War Memorial Bridge, Portsmouth, 1923

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1923 Location: Portsmouth; Kittery Media: Glass Negative

Item 27987

Invitation, Farmington, 1903

Contributed by: Farmington Public Library Date: 1903-09-03 Location: Farmington Media: Postcard

Item 23671

Kittery-Portsmouth Bridge ceremony, 1923

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1923 Location: Kittery; Portsmouth Media: Glass Negative

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 111982

Winthrop Library, Winthrop, 1916

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1916 Location: Winthrop Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Shaarey Tphiloh, Portland's Orthodox Synagogue

Shaarey Tphiloh was founded in 1904 by immigrants from Eastern Europe. While accommodating to American society, the Orthodox synagogue also has retained many of its traditions.

Exhibit

Graduation Season

Graduations -- and schools -- in the 19th through the first decade of the 20th century often were small affairs and sometimes featured student presentations that demonstrated what they had learned. They were not necessarily held in May or June, what later became the standard "end of the school year."

Exhibit

The Kotzschmar Memorial Organ

A fire and two men whose lives were entwined for more than 50 years resulted in what is now considered to be "the Jewel of Portland" -- the Austin organ that was given to the city of Portland in 1912.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Historic Clothing Collection - 1890-1900 - Page 3 of 3

"… bands embellishing the asymmetrical jacket front opening. Fitting close over the hips, the gored skirt flares at the hemline, heralding the style…"

Site Page

Historic Clothing Collection - Outerwear 1830-1860

"… cape; a wide dark brown wadded coat, with an open front, gathered back waist, and voluminous matching cape trimmed with deep bands of cord…"

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Historic Clothing Collection - Early Twentieth Century

"… silk lining visible under the fitted jacket’s open work detailing, and full length rustling aquamarine silk petticoat seen under openwork on the…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Pandemic ruminations and the death of Rose Cleveland
by Tilly Laskey

Correlations between the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics

Story

Welimahskil: Sweet grass
by Suzanne Greenlaw

Weaving Indigenous Knowledge (IK) and western science around Sweetgrass

Story

Tracers
by anonymous

tracers, bonding, and fixations