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Historical Items

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Item 99397

Flames rolling though the windows of Grafton Lumber, Biddeford, 1963

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1963-03-20 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 31102

Fusiliers Laurier (Laurier Rifles), Biddeford, 1912

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1912 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 5430

Pejepscot Paper Company, Topsham, April 1895

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1895 Location: Topsham Media: Glass Negative

Online Exhibits

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Portland Hotels

Since the establishment of the area's first licensed hotel in 1681, Portland has had a dramatic, grand and boisterous hotel tradition. The Portland hotel industry has in many ways reflected the growth and development of the city itself. As Portland grew with greater numbers of people moving through the city or calling it home, the hotel business expanded to fit the increasing demand.

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Fashionable Maine: early twentieth century clothing

Maine residents kept pace with the dramatic shift in women’s dress that occurred during the short number of years preceding and immediately following World War I. The long restrictive skirts, stiff collars, body molding corsets and formal behavior of earlier decades quickly faded away and the new straight, dropped waist easy-to-wear clothing gave mobility and freedom of movement in tune with the young independent women of the casual, post-war jazz age generation.

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Maine Streets: The Postcard View

Photographers from the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co. of Belfast traveled throughout the state, especially in small communities, taking images for postcards. Many of these images, taken in the first three decades of the twentieth century, capture Main Streets on the brink of modernity.

Site Pages

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Mercy Hospital - 100 Years of Mercy Hospital

"… a growing and changing population, and dramatically different medical technologies. At the turn of the 21st century, as those challenges began to…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4

"… riding school buses in Scarborough has risen dramatically since then and the standard yellow school bus delivers students to and from school daily…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… features: a deep river that rose and fell dramatically with each tide, a shallow falls that invited exploration to the north, and a smaller river…"