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Historical Items

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Item 20278

R.R. Y.M.C.A., Portland, 1922

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1922 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 28857

Y. M. C. A. and High Street, Portland, 1921

Contributed by: Seashore Trolley Museum Date: circa 1921 Location: Portland Media: Postcard

Online Exhibits

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Begin Again: reckoning with intolerance in Maine

BEGIN AGAIN explores Maine's historic role, going back 528 years, in crisis that brought about the pandemic, social and economic inequities, and the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.

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Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye

The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.

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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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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Railroad Station

"Train Ferry Hercules, Bath, ca. 1908Patten Free Library Before the current railroad station, in 1871, MCRR built a station at almost the same…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Columbian Block

"… our block was the YMCA which stands for Young Men Christian Association. The YMCA was important because it provided opportunities for athletic…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"He was a member of several Christian Churches. The entire Palmer family had a long tradition of running dry goods stores in Bath."