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Item 9067

Head of Skowhegan Island, from Elm Street, ca. 1870

Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1870 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print

Item 116625

Plymouth Company Records, Volume 4, 1800-1811

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1768–1753 Location: Augusta; Whitefield Media: Ink on Paper
This record contains 592 images.

Online Exhibits

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Summer Folk: The Postcard View

Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."

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Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye

The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.

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We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.

Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.

Site Pages

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Historic Hallowell - In Sickness and in Health

"John Hubbard), Obadiah Williams, James Parker, Issachar Snell, Stephen Barton (brother-in-law of Martha Ballard and great-grandfather of civil war…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Bass Park: A History of Fillies, Fame, and Fun

"Prominent local businessman and politician Joseph Parker Bass and Ezra L. Stearns helped incorporate Maplewood Park, and its original architecture…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"A freshet is described as a flash flood or flood resulting from a spring thaw. These freshets battered crops, homes and mills."