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Historical Items

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Item 105931

High dive traveling circus act, Waterville, ca. 1925

Courtesy of Henry Gartley, an individual partner Date: circa 1925 Location: Waterville Media: Photographic print

Item 23986

Cimbria, Bucksport, ca. 1903

Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1903 Location: Bangor Media: Postcard

Item 27952

Bath Opera House reopening, 1926

Contributed by: Maine Maritime Museum Date: 1926 Location: Bath Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Summer Folk: The Postcard View

Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."

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Samantha Smith's Questions

Samantha Smith, a Manchester schoolgirl, gained international fame in 1983 by asking Soviet leader Yuri Andropov whether he intended to start a nuclear war and then visiting the Soviet Union to be reassured that no one there wanted war.

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Prohibition in Maine in the 1920s

Federal Prohibition took hold of America in 1920 with the passing of the Volstead Act that banned the sale and consumption of all alcohol in the US. However, Maine had the Temperance movement long before anyone was prohibited from taking part in one of America's most popular past times. Starting in 1851, the struggles between the "drys" and the "wets" of Maine lasted for 82 years, a period of time that was everything but dry and rife with nothing but illegal activity.

Site Pages

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"Acts and Resolves Passed by the General Court of Massachusetts. “An Act for Establishing a Turnpike Corporation Within the Town of Scarborough,”…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance

"… diversity of the area and eventually he took his act far beyond Mount Desert Island, performing across the region and on Broadway."

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Historic Hallowell - Martha Ballard

"Furthermore, in the very act of recording her work, she became a keeper of vital records, a chronicler of the medical history of her town."

My Maine Stories

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Story

Maine and the Atlantic World Slave Economy
by Seth Goldstein

How Maine's historic industries are tied to slavery

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Pandemic ruminations and the death of Rose Cleveland
by Tilly Laskey

Correlations between the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics