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Item 5251

Gen. John Pope, 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1862 Media: Carte de visite

Item 82298

Resolution on building hospital, Portland, 1824

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1824 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 30877

John Quincy Adams Hawes, druggist, Hallowell, ca. 1890

Courtesy of Sumner A. Webber, Sr., an individual partner Date: circa 1890 Location: Hallowell Media: Photographic print

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Father John Bapst: Catholicism's Defender and Promoter

Father John Bapst, a Jesuit, knew little of America or Maine when he arrived in Old Town in 1853 from Switzerland. He built churches and defended Roman Catholics against Know-Nothing activists, who tarred and feathered the priest in Ellsworth in 1854.

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La St-Jean in Lewiston-Auburn

St-Jean-Baptiste Day -- June 24th -- in Lewiston-Auburn was a very public display of ethnic pride for nearly a century. Since about 1830, French Canadians had used St. John the Baptist's birthdate as a demonstration of French-Canadian nationalism.

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The Nativist Klan

In Maine, like many other states, a newly formed Ku Klux Klan organization began recruiting members in the years just before the United States entered World War I. A message of patriotism and cautions about immigrants and non-Protestants drew many thousands of members into the secret organization in the early 1920s. By the end of the decade, the group was largely gone from Maine.

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Henry Pope Clearwater, Hallowell, ca. 1950

Historic Hallowell - Henry Pope Clearwater Ph.D.~ Patient Medicine Mass Marketer

"Henry Pope Clearwater Ph.D.~ Patient Medicine Mass Marketer Dr. Henry ClearwaterHubbard Free Library Henry P."

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Maternity, Hallowell Granite Works, ca. 1895

Historic Hallowell - In Sickness and in Health

"… of special note: four doctors; Benjamin Vaughan, Benjamin Page, John Hubbard, Henry Pope Clearwater, and one celebrated midwife, Martha Ballard."