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Historical Items

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Item 11250

Blown glass gilt decorated decanter and wine glasses, York, ca. 1800

Contributed by: Old York Historical Society Date: circa 1800 Location: York Media: Blown lead glass, gilt

Item 101697

Gin recipe, ca. 1925

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1925 Media: Ink on paper

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Online Exhibits

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Bootleggers vs. Police

"Building such craft for bootleggers brought a brisk business to Downeast boatyards. Prohibition liquor hiding techniques: Victrola before…"

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Quenching the Thirst

"At one point a shipment of liquor was seized by state authorities. Occasional off-campus antics caused friction as well, for as the Old Soldiers…"

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Business as Usual

"… grand city hotel is said to have always served liquor by simply paying fines as the cost of doing business. In Portland, J.B."

Site Pages

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Early Maine Photography - Human Interest

"… in hand rest their elbows on a table displaying a liquor bottle (pictured at right). Daguerreotype of a man dressed in fur, ca."

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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… the Neck and the boats would come in, off-load liquor, and load it onto Old Packard touring cars."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"The town did not sell liquor but did have a beauty shop, greenhouse, garage, creamery, butcher shop, and livery stables. Dr. Charles W."

My Maine Stories

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Vegetarians and Zoonosis
by Avery Yale Kamila

Colds, influenza, tuberculosis, measles, smallpox, plague and COVID-19 group under zoonotic diseases

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A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down

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History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars