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Historical Items

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Item 13581

Birchbark canoe on calamity, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1890 Media: Photographic print

Item 22694

J.H. Hamlen & Son building after fire, Portland, 1901

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1901-11-05 Location: Portland Media: Lantern slide

Item 36261

Ebeneezer Greely letter from jail, New Brunswick, 1837

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1837 Location: Madawaska; Fredericton Media: Ink on paper

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Online Exhibits

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Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man and a poet of New England conscience. He was influenced by his ancestry and his Portland boyhood home and experience.

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CODE RED: Climate, Justice & Natural History Collections

Explore topics around climate change by reuniting collections from one of the nation's earliest natural history museums, the Portland Society of Natural History. The exhibition focuses on how museums collect, and the role of humans in creating changes in society, climate, and biodiversity.

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State of Mind: Becoming Maine

The history of the region now known as Maine did not begin at statehood in 1820. What was Maine before it was a state? How did Maine separate from Massachusetts? How has the Maine we experience today been shaped by thousands of years of history?

Site Pages

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War & Biddeford

"… during the past year in regard to the national calamity that is now upon us. Thus far we boast of deeds, not words, and while other localities may…"

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Lubec, Maine - The Gardner Lake Tragedy - Page 1 of 2

"Coincidentally, the calamity occurred on the 125th anniversary of the state legislature acceptance of the Charter to establish the Town of Lubec; the…"