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Historical Items

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Item 27063

Islesboro High School girls' basketball team, 1928

Contributed by: Islesboro Historical Society Date: 1928 Location: Islesboro Media: Photographic print

Item 63047

Swan's Island softball team, ca. 1978

Contributed by: Swan's Island Historical Society Date: circa 1978 Location: Swan's Island Media: Photographic print

Item 73313

Niles Nelson, South Portland, 1926

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1926 Location: South Portland Media: Glass Negative

Online Exhibits

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From French Canadians to Franco-Americans

French Canadians who emigrated to the Lewiston-Auburn area faced discrimination as children and adults -- such as living in "Little Canada" tenements and being ridiculed for speaking French -- but also adapted to their new lives and sustained many cultural traditions.

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Summer's Favorite Game

Baseball often is called the National Pastime. For many people, baseball is encountered in the backyard and down the street, a game played by a few or the full contingent of a team.

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We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.

Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.

Site Pages

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Sports

"… High School Sports View a High School Sports Slideshow Sports, as in newspapers around the globe, occupied a prominent role in the Press…"

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans"

""Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans" Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans View Immigration and Americanization slideshow Text by…"

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Along the Waterfront

"Along the Waterfront X The Portland Press Herald and the Evening Express ran a regular column on what was going on on Portland's busy working…"