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Historical Items

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Item 111008

Pigeon River, including waterways between Lakes Kaseigunaha and Superior, ca. 1820

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1820 Media: Ink on paper
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Item 110993

Pigeon River, waterways between Lakes Kaseigunaha and Superior, ca. 1820

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1820 Media: Ink on paper
This record contains 4 images.

Item 98858

Philip Andrews feeding his pigeons, Main Street, Dixfield, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Dixfield Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Dixfield Media: Postcard

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

CODE RED: Climate, Justice & Natural History Collections

Explore topics around climate change by reuniting collections from one of the nation's earliest natural history museums, the Portland Society of Natural History. The exhibition focuses on how museums collect, and the role of humans in creating changes in society, climate, and biodiversity.

Exhibit

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.

Site Pages

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Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones

"… wrote letters to each other, or attached notes to pigeons. Some people used Morse code. If they wanted to get information out fast, then they told…"

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1920-1930 - Page 3 of 3

"Its color, Nile Green (named for the Egyptian river), and hemline palmette designs provide an example of the prevailing Egyptian design influence…"