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Historical Items

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Item 39367

Tobogan Run in Winter, Bangor, ca. 1895

Contributed by: Bangor Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Bangor Media: Glass Negative

Item 50414

Horse car #87, Portland, ca. 1885

Contributed by: Seashore Trolley Museum Date: circa 1885 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 12916

Horse trolley, Portland, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 150580

Block for Mr. M.J. Googin, Lewiston, 1893-1915

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1893–1915 Location: Lewiston; Lewiston Client: M. J. Googin Architect: George M. Coombs; Coombs Brothers Architects

Online Exhibits

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - A Call to Temperance

"… than attending the wounded riders and their horse, the passengers simply smashed the keg of rum, which they saw as the root cause."

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Drinking: Elegance and Debauchery

"… to turn out and help put its members in a horse pond. We have no objections." Alcoholometer set by Charles Gerletti of Glasgow, made…"

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Fair Season: Crops, Livestock, and Entertainment

Agricultural fairs, intended to promote new techniques and better farming methods, have been held since the early 19th century. Before long, entertainments were added to the educational focus of the early fairs.

Site Pages

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Dairy Farms Memories - Page 1 of 2

"His neighbors farmed with horses that would pull big drags with rocks piled on it. The drag would make flat paths. That looked like little roads."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Fiske Block, Broad Street, Bangor, 1864

"… John Womans' Barn was set on fire E H Tebbets horse shed and 4 stores commencing at I W Pattens and running north Cyras Goss were entirely consumed…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Third Parish Church, Bangor, 1865

"… on and give a space sufficient to hitch and turn horses was vacant on French Street and the Committee purchased this lot so as to convene in a…"

My Maine Stories

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John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne

Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.

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The only letter to survive World War II
by Cyrene Slegona

Only one of many letters my father sent to his wife remained after he came home from World War II.

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Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey

MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR