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Item 13072

Contributed by: Maine State Archives Date: 1803-10-15 Location: Woburn; Baldwin Media: book, Ink on paper

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Item 100314

K.B. Sewall draft of letter to Phineas Barnes, Mobile, 1858

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1858-01-08 Location: Mobile; Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 21221

G.W. Pierce nomination as County Attorney, 1833

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1833-03-01 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 151660

Libby well-house, Portland, ca. 1885

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1885 Location: Portland Client: Charles F. Libby Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Item 151265

Stonecroft, Falmouth, 1999-2001

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1999–2001 Location: Falmouth Clients: Tom Tureen; Susan Tureen Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates
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Item 151675

Potter house, Brunswick, 1893

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1893 Location: Brunswick Client: Barrett Potter Architect: John Calvin Stevens
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Online Exhibits

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George F. Shepley: Lawyer, Soldier, Administrator

George F. Shepley of Portland had achieved renown as a lawyer and as U.S. Attorney for Maine when, at age 42 he formed the 12th Maine Infantry and went off to war. Shepley became military governor of Louisiana early in 1862 and remained in the military for the duration of the war.

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Stone house with clipped gables, 974 Sawyer Street, South Portland, ca. 1920

Sylvan Site: A Model Development

Frederick Wheeler Hinckley, a Portland lawyer and politician, had grand visions of a 200-home development when he began the Sylvan Site in South Portland in 1917. The stock market crash in 1929 put a halt to his plans, but by then he had built 37, no two of which were alike.

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Debates Over Suffrage

While numerous Mainers worked for and against woman suffrage in the state in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some also worked on the national level, seeking a federal amendment to allow women the right to vote

Site Pages

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Allen Building

"Now a vacant building, attorney Charles P. Allen built the Allen building in 1890 to house his practice."

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Anna Margaret Holwell Deering and daughters, Portland, ca. 1855

Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 2 of 2

"… Anna Margaret married Nathaniel Deering, a noted attorney, editor composer, and dramatist. More conventionally posed are Elizabeth P."

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Dixfield Village as seen from Peru Side, Dixfield, ca. 1900

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5

"… the best talent in the legal system, with Attorney Isaac Randall, a master of turning out distinguished legal talent and whose influence extended…"