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Item 17349

Binoculars, Wood Island Lighthouse, ca. 1865

Binoculars, Wood Island Lighthouse, ca. 1865

Contributed by: An individual through Friends of Wood Island Lighthouse Date: circa 1865 Location: Old Orchard Beach Media: Glass, metal

Item 14774

Navy plea for binoculars, 1917

Navy plea for binoculars, 1917

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1917 Media: Ink on paper, poster

Item 148412

Louise Weston Sewell's mother-of-pearl inlay opera glasses, Livermore Falls, ca. 1904

Louise Weston Sewell's mother-of-pearl inlay opera glasses, Livermore Falls, ca. 1904

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1904 Location: Livermore Falls Media: Brass, mother of pearl shell, metal, velvet, silk

Online Exhibits

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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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Fire lookout at Agamenticus Mountain, ca. 1920

Looking Out: Maine's Fire Towers

Maine, the most heavily forested state in the nation, had the first continuously operational fire lookout tower, beginning a system of fire prevention that lasted much of the twentieth century.

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Fight or buy bonds, World War I poster, 1917

World War I and the Maine Experience

With a long history of patriotism and service, Maine experienced the war in a truly distinct way. Its individual experiences tell the story of not only what it means to be an American, but what it means to be from Maine during the war to end all wars.