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Item 16248

Nurses, Eastern Maine General Hospital, ca. 1908

Contributed by: Eastern Maine Medical Center Date: circa 1908 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Phebe Cole Townsend's 'electric' blue dress, Alexander, ca. 1863

Northern Threads: Civil War-era clothing

An exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads, Part 1," featuring American Civil War civilian and military clothing, 1860 to 1869.

Exhibit

State of Mind: Becoming Maine

The history of the region now known as Maine did not begin at statehood in 1820. What was Maine before it was a state? How did Maine separate from Massachusetts? How has the Maine we experience today been shaped by thousands of years of history?

Exhibit

Bird and butterfly display at the Portland Society of Natural History, ca. 1965

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.

Site Pages

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Cottagers

"… Southwest Harbor, Northeast Harbor, and Seal Harbor—followed a different course of development than Bar Harbor."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 5 of 5

"Bicentenial Memorabilia Seal, Dixfield, 2003.Dixfield Historical Society Sources: Dixfield Historical Society Archives and Artifacts Peter Stowell…"

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… them to the factories, cooked the sardines and sealed the cans. Until child labor laws were instituted in the 1930s children, using sharp knives…"