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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 Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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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…"

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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.

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Margaret Chase Smith: A Historic Candidacy

When she announced her candidacy for President in January 1964, three-term Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman to seek the nomination of one of the two major political parties.

Site Pages

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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…"

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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."