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Item 31505

Elijah Kellogg Church, Harpswell, ca. 1870

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1870 Location: Harpswell Media: Photographic print

Item 9110

Center Congregational Church, Lovell, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Lovell Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Lovell Media: Photoprint

Item 67513

Bowlers with trophies, Winslow, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Winslow Historical Preservation Committee Date: circa 1940 Location: Winslow Media: Photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 151737

Mrs. Welch house alterations, Portland, 1938

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1938 Location: Portland Client: F. B. W. Welch Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Online Exhibits

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Nursing students, Eastern Maine General Hospital, ca. 1898

One Hundred Years of Caring -- EMMC

In 1892 five physicians -- William H. Simmons, William C. Mason, Walter H. Hunt, Everett T. Nealey, and William E. Baxter -- realized the need for a hospital in the city of Bangor had become urgent and they set about providing one.

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Protests

Throughout the history of the state, residents have protested, on paper or in the streets, to increase rights for various groups, to effect social change, to prevent social change, or to let their feelings be known about important issues.

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Jack Lawrence, Saco, on Bicycle, ca. 1900

A Craze for Cycling

Success at riding a bike mirrored success in life. Bicycling could bring families together. Bicycling was good for one's health. Bicycling was fun. Bicycles could go fast. Such were some of the arguments made to induce many thousands of people around Maine and the nation to take up the new pastime at the end of the nineteenth century.