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Historical Items

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Mystery Corner Item

Item 102176

Forest fire refugees, Biddeford, 1947

Mystery Corner Item Do you recognize anyone in this photo?

Contributed by: Brick Store Museum Date: 1947 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 102682

Ismail Ahmed, Lewiston, 2009

Courtesy of Jan Pieter Van Voorst Van Beest, an individual partner Date: 2009 Location: Lewiston Media: Digital photograph

Item 63563

Gen. Oliver Otis Howard funeral, Vermont, 1909

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1909-10-29 Location: Burlington Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Pigeon's Mainer Project: who decides who belongs?

Street artist Pigeon's artwork tackles the multifaceted topic of immigration. He portrays Maine residents, some who are asylum seekers, refugees, and immigrants—people who are often marginalized through state and federal policies—to ask questions about the dynamics of power in society, and who gets to call themselves a “Mainer.”

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1865 to 1919: The Drys Gain New Adherents and Leaders

"… causes including suffrage and aid to Armenian refugees and were part of an emerging generation of professional women."

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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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Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows

"… and 1942, he assisted in running a school for war refugee boys from Great Britain and Europe. Gridley Barrows served in the Pacific during World…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"Algonquin speaking refugees from English areas of southern New England fled northward and enlarged villages on the Kennebec and Penobscot Rivers."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"… had been dramatically disrupted when loyalist refugees, including commission officials like Pagan, established the town of St."

My Maine Stories

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Love is greater than peace, For peace is founded upon love
by Parivash Rohani

My journey from Iran to Maine

Story

Somali Bantu farmers put down roots in Maine
by Muhidin D. Libah

Running the Somali Bantu Community Association and finding food security in Maine

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Aimé Muyombano, Phd - From adversity to community service
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center Voices of Biddeford project

Fleeing atrocities in Africa, Professor Muyombano dedicates himself to a life of community service