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Item 65101

Surry Elementary students, Surry, 1958

Who are these cute kids?

Contributed by: Surry Historical Society Date: 1958 Location: Surry Media: Photographic print

Item 64124

Scholar's Report Book cover, Surry, 1937 - 1938

Contributed by: Surry Historical Society Date: 1937–1938 Location: Surry Media: Ink on paper

Item 69690

Exhibition and Class Day program cover, Surry Grammar School, 1938

Contributed by: Surry Historical Society Date: 1938 Location: Surry Media: Ink on paper

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Gladys Hasty Carroll, South Berwick, 1937

Capturing Arts and Artists in the 1930s

Emmie Bailey Whitney of the Lewiston Journal Saturday Magazine and her husband, noted amateur photographer G. Herbert Whitney, captured in words and photographs the richness of Maine's arts scene during the Great Depression.

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Rebecca Usher: 'To Succor the Suffering Soldiers'

Rebecca Usher of Hollis was 41 and single when she joined the Union nursing service at the U.S. General Hospital at Chester, Pennsylvania. Her time there and later at City Point, Virginia, were defining experiences of her life.

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Sgt. Nelson W. Jones, 3rd Maine Infantry, ca. 1862

This Rebellion: Maine and the Civil War

For Mainers like many other people in both the North and the South, the Civil War, which lasted from 1861-1865, had a profound effect on their lives. Letters, artifacts, relics, and other items saved by participants at home and on the battlefield help illuminate the nature of the Civil War experience for Mainers.