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Historical Items

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Item 16386

Egg Carrier, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1920 Location: Littleton Media: Tin

Item 16387

Acme Egg-grading Scale, 1924

Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: 1924-06-24 Location: Littleton; St. Paul Media: Aluminum

Item 135821

"Great Auk, Murre, Cormorant, Loon, and Puffin eggs," Weld, ca. 2014

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 2014 Location: Weld Media: Watercolor on paper

Tax Records

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Item 76249

32-34 South Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: William J. O'Neil Use: Dwelling - Single Family & Store

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 110452

Clements Garden at East Egg, Blue Hill, 2005

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2005 Location: Blue Hill Client: Beth Clements Architect: Patrick Chasse

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Raising Fish

Mainers began propagating fish to stock ponds and lakes in the mid 19th century. The state got into the business in the latter part of the century, first concentrating on Atlantic salmon, then moving into raising other species for stocking rivers, lakes, and ponds.

Exhibit

Putting Men to Work, Saving Trees

While many Mainers were averse to accepting federal relief money during the Great Depression of the 1930s, young men eagerly joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of President Franklin Roosevelt's most popular programs. The Maine Forest Service supervised the work of many of the camps.

Exhibit

San Life: the Western Maine Sanatorium, 1928-1929

Merle Wadleigh of Portland, who was in his mid 20s, took and saved photographs that provide a glimpse into the life of a tuberculosis patient at the Western Maine Sanatorium in Hebron in 1928-1929.

Site Pages

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Alonzo E. Raynes diving off wharf, Hampden, ca. 1840

"… Covaly's wharf in Hampden in order to retrieve an egg that his friends dropped in the river. Raynes' half-brother, John Martin (1823-1904) drew an…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"The egg house had sawdust insulation in the walls and an ice bunk in the center. The wooden egg cases were kept cool, awaiting shipment to Boston…"

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Caribou Public Library

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My Maine Stories

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Story

How Belfast was the Chicken Capital of the Northeast
by Ralph Chavis

My memories of spending time in Belfast as a child when my father worked in the chicken industry.

Story

Growing up on a potato and dairy farm
by Paula Woodworth

Life growing up and working on a potato and dairy farm was hard work but fun in Aroostook County.

Story

My career as a wildlife biologist
by Ron Joseph

Rural Maine provided the foundation of a rewarding career as a wildlife biologist.