Keywords: cat portraits
Item 102448
Contributed by: Stanley Museum on deposit at Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Media: Lantern slide, hand colored
Item 103573
Achorn family in hammock, Coopers Mills, Whitefield, ca. 1906
Contributed by: An individual through Whitefield Historical Society Date: circa 1906 Location: Whitefield Media: Postcard
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Informal family photos often include family pets -- but formal, studio portraits and paintings also often feature one person and one pet, in formal attire and pose.
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Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Annie Martin, Bangor, 1864
"… she was making a dress for her doll, telling the cat she could not pick it up because she was busy. He wrote, "even now 1864 she has a very large…"
