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Historical Items

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Item 35258

Fortunes Rocks, Biddeford, ca. 1908

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1908 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 13674

E. B. White advertisement, Houton, 1900

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1900 Location: Houlton Media: Ink on paper

Item 14020

Watchmaker and Jeweler advertisement, Houlton, 1895

Contributed by: Cary Library Date: 1895 Location: Houlton Media: Ink on paper

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Clean Water: Muskie and the Environment

Maine Senator Edmund S. Muskie earned the nickname "Mr. Clean" for his environment efforts during his tenure in Congress from 1959 to 1980. He helped created a political coalition that passed important clean air and clean water legislation, drawing on his roots in Maine.

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The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History

After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner <em>Bowdoin,</em> which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.

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400 years of New Mainers

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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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… of the time single-handedly and very capably, tackled many tasks at home of farming, child rearing, cooking, and caring for the sick, elderly, and…"

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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