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Historical Items

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Item 80994

The Wildcat, Princeton, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Princeton Public Library Date: circa 1915 Location: Princeton Media: Photographic print

Item 30996

Aftermath of Hooper Street fire, Biddeford, April 1963

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1963 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 42199

"Take Me Back to Dear Old Maine," 1906

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1906 Media: Ink on paper

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Online Exhibits

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Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man and a poet of New England conscience. He was influenced by his ancestry and his Portland boyhood home and experience.

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Student Exhibit: A Friend in Need!

Sometime in the 1920s a 700 hundred pound moose fell through the ice, likely between Norridgewock and Skowhegan. She was rescued by a game warden and another man. Here is the story.

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MHS in Pictures: exploring our first 200 years

Two years after separating from Massachusetts, Maine leaders—many who were part of the push for statehood—also separated from Massachusetts Historical Society, creating the Maine Historical Society in 1822. The legislation signed on February 5, 1822 positioned MHS as the third-oldest state dedicated historical organization in the nation. The exhibition features MHS's five locations over the institution's two centuries, alongside images of leaders who have steered the organization through pivotal times.

Site Pages

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 3 of 3

"They kept them in the house; free to wander where they wanted. Since Vietnam didn’t have ambulances, if someone were to have an emergency and needed…"

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Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"Then a rude wigwam village on a little fertile plateau where the fires built a niche in the forest close by the banks of a beautiful bay."

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Bob's Bears

"1A. Wandering over I saw a strange sight. Two, or maybe three people were holding long leads that were attached to three bears; two brown; one black…"

My Maine Stories

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A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down

Story

My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne

Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima