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Historical Items

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Item 11139

Income tax reform effort, Portland, 1981

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1981-08-12 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 149775

VegFest poster, Portland, 2012

Courtesy of Avery Yale Kamila, an individual partner Date: 2012 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

Item 5539

Dorothea L. Dix, ca. 1870

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1870 Media: Photographic print

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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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Overview & Introduction

"The drive to reform the abuse of alcohol was one of the great moral and social controversies of the 19th and early 20th centuries."

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Society Copes

"… 1997.248 Hires Root Beer was marketed as a "great temperance drink." GALLERIES: Bootleggers vs. Police | Society Copes | Reform and Repeal"

Site Pages

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s Text by The 7th Grade Maine Studies Students of the William S. Cohen School."

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Life on a Tidal River - Exhibits

"The twelfth exhibit, Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s, was created during the 2016-2017 school year."

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Historic Hallowell - Values and Charity

"… right on all occasions,” they did act on their reform impulses. The first Anti-Slavery Society in Maine was organized here in 1833, and a…"