Keywords: Souvenir booklets
Item 78678
WLU fundraiser souvenir book cover, Portland, 1915
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1915 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 25289
Souvenir booklet, L'Union Canadienne des Raquetteurs, 1928
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: 1928 Media: Ink on paper
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In the early 1600s, French explorers and colonizers in the New World quickly adopted a Native American mode of transportation to get around during the harsh winter months: the snowshoe. Most Northern societies had some form of snowshoe, but the Native Americans turned it into a highly functional item. French settlers named snowshoes "raquettes" because they resembled the tennis racket then in use.
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Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine
As early as 1633, entrepreneurs along the Piscataqua River in southern Maine utilized the force of the river to power a sawmill, recognizing the potential of the area's natural power sources, but it was not until the 1890s that technology made widespread electricity a reality -- and even then, consumers had to be urged to use it.
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Guilford, Maine - Special Events
"A Souvenir Program Booklet listed events on Friday such as horse pulling, ball games, bean-hole bean supper, talent show, helicopter rides and a…"
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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