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Historical Items

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Item 18713

Bridgewater Odd Fellows' stage curtain, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Bridgewater Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Bridgewater; Venice Media: Fabric and paint

Item 15523

Cumston Hall Auditorium Stage and Curtain, Monmouth, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Monmouth Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Monmouth Media: Glass Negative

Item 17269

Miniature theater, ca. 1955

Contributed by: Nordica Memorial Association Date: circa 1955 Location: Farmington Media: Wood, plaster, cloth

Tax Records

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Item 36676

89 Center Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Ellen M Payne Use: Dwelling & Store

Online Exhibits

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Atherton Furniture

LeBaron Atherton's furniture empire consisted of ten stores, four of which were in Maine. The photos are reminiscent of a different era in retailing.

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Lillian Nordica: Farmington Diva

Lillian Norton, known as Nordica, was one of the best known sopranos in America and the world at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. She was a native of Farmington.

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Northern Threads: Bustle era fashions

A themed vignette within "Northern Threads Part I," featuring 1870s and 80s era bustle silhouettes.

Site Pages

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Historic Hallowell - History of The Cotton Mill

"… because it made fabrics like dresses and lace curtains. This helped Hallowell because it provided jobs for men, women, and children."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Division Street School, Bangor, 1865

"… Resivoir, House painted chrome yellow with yellow curtains The wood shed & out house fence Rough boards no paint Resivoir scuttles cast iron set in…"

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Redmen's Hall

"Inside, you know the curtain that goes up, that was so pretty. But that’s about all I remember of that because...they tore it down after that."…"

My Maine Stories

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My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne

Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima

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A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down