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Historical Items

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Item 100535

David James to Moses Greenleaf on slate, New York, 1834

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1834 Location: Greenport Media: Ink on paper

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Item 23450

Clyde and Margaret Chase Smith Home / Redington-Fairview Hospital, Skowhegan, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1940 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print

Item 64270

Mary Palmer, Farmington State Normal School, 1930

Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: 1930 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Carlton P. Fogg, Advocate for Vocational Education

Carlton P. Fogg (1899-1972) was passionate about vocational and technical education. While teaching at the high school level in Waterville, Fogg's lobbying and letter-writing helped create the Kennebec Valley Vocational Technical Institute in 1969.

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Lillian Nordica: Farmington Diva

Lillian Norton, known as Nordica, was one of the best known sopranos in America and the world at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. She was a native of Farmington.

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The Kotzschmar Memorial Organ

A fire and two men whose lives were entwined for more than 50 years resulted in what is now considered to be "the Jewel of Portland" -- the Austin organ that was given to the city of Portland in 1912.

Site Pages

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Architecture & Landscape database - Elmer I. Thomas

"Between 1891 and his untimely death in 1895 at the age of thirty-two, he was active in designing homes, churches, public buildings, and business…"

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Lubec, Maine - Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail

"Soon after Avery’s untimely death on July 26, 1952, an act of the Maine Legislature renamed East Peak on Bigelow Mountain as Myron Avery Peak."

My Maine Stories

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USCG Boot Camp Experience, Vietnam War era
by Peter S. Morgan, Jr.

"Letters to the Wall" Memorial Day