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Item 21423

Sanford Mills, Unusual View, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative

Item 26559

Wedding parade film, Caribou, 1930

Contributed by: Northeast Historic Film Date: 1930-06-05 Location: Caribou Media: filmstrip, 16mm

Item 10977

Unusual archaeological site found, 1980

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1980-10-16 Location: Augusta; Maine; New Hampshire Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

“Lines Composed on the Death of Joseph J. Sager,” ca. 1835

Notorious: Maine Crime in the Public Eye, 1690–1940 - Poison & Infidelity: The Case of Phebe Sager

"… tea and milk, Joseph left his untouched—which was unusual. When Rafter emptied the cream pitcher, she noticed a white powder."

Exhibit

Peleg Wadsworth deed of land to Stephen Longfellow, Portland, 1827

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - Researching Your Home

"The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is unusual – it is richly supported by extensive records gathered by family members and placed in museum and library…"

Exhibit

British Naval and Merchant Telescope, ca. 1850

Women, War, and the Homefront

When America entered the Great War in 1917, the government sent out pleas for help from American women, many of whom responded at the battle front and on the home front.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Mildred Thomas and Harold Sawyer, ca. 1910

"This photo is unusual as most of his pictures were landscapes, and very rarely included people. Sawyer gave the photograph to the Thomas family where…"

Site Page

Brocade silk dress with pleated puffed sleeves, Windham, ca. 1840

Historic Clothing Collection - Fabric Adaptive Reuse

"… the job was much more extensive as this informative and unusual group of surviving items from the Maine Historical Society collection illustrates."