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Item 29346

Susan Jane (Jennie) Dennison, Brunswick, ca. 1860, ca. 1860

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1860 Location: Brunswick Media: Photographic print

Item 80488

Letter to Sarah Tarbox from classmate Susan Greenleaf, 1836

Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: 1836 Location: Westport Media: Ink on paper

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Item 35481

Mary Susan Tucker Pike of Lubec, Boston, ca. 1890, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Boston; Lubec Media: Photograph on card

Online Exhibits

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Debates Over Suffrage

While numerous Mainers worked for and against woman suffrage in the state in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some also worked on the national level, seeking a federal amendment to allow women the right to vote

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Mary King Scrimgeour dress, Lewiston, ca. 1895

Dressing Up, Standing Out, Fitting In

Adorning oneself to look one's "best" has varied over time, gender, economic class, and by event. Adornments suggest one's sense of identity and one's intent to stand out or fit in.

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Riverside Hotel, at Popham Beach, Phippsburg, ca. 1910

Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye

The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.

Site Pages

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Fales Edgarton House, Thomaston, ca. 1870

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Atticus: A Fugitive Slave

"The Susan had shipped a cargo of lime and hay from East Thomaston, Maine, to Savannah, Georgia, and was to be repaired in that town."

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Methodist Episcopal Church, Strong, ca. 1905

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - A Murder In Strong

"… year old Lura Vellie Libby, daughter of Isaac and Susan Libby, left on-foot from her family farm northwest of the village, on her way to services…"