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Historical Items

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Item 102504

Letter to Woodrow Wilson regarding Prohibition during WWI, Bangor, ca. 1916

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1916 Location: Bangor Media: Ink on paper

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Item 74735

Interior of Gulf Island hydro station, ca. 1927

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1927 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print

Item 5958

Acter Patten's land, Topsham, 1765

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1765-11-09 Location: Topsham Media: Ink on paper

Online Exhibits

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Walter Wyman and River Power

Walter Wyman's vision to capture the power of Maine's rivers to produce electricity led to the formation of Central Maine Power Co. and to a struggle within the state over what should happen to the power produced by the state's natural resources.

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Elise Fellows White: Music, Writing, and Family

From a violin prodigy in her early years to an older woman -- mother of two -- struggling financially, Skowhegan native Mary Elise Fellows White remained committed to music, writing, poetry, her extended family -- and living a life that would matter and be remembered.

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Monuments to Civil War Soldiers

Maine supplied a huge number of soldiers to the Union Army during the Civil War -- some 70,000 -- and responded after the war by building monuments to soldiers who had served and soldiers who had died in the epic American struggle.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Historic Hallowell - Blizzard Poems

"… Surprise disaster warning last minute necessities struggling people Roads plow’s success died down difficult transportation troubled vehicles…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 1 of 3

"Their farms were widely separated, and they struggled for existence in the face of primitive hardships."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance

"As the tribes struggled to get by without sacrificing their rich cultural traditions, some began to market themselves as native tour guides and…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

One View
by Karen Jelenfy

My life as an artist in Maine.

Story

The story behind David Moses Bridges' basket
by Patricia Ayala Rocabado

The story behind David Moses Bridges' (1962-2017) birch bark basket

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Being an NP during social unrest
by Jacqueline P. Fournier

A snapshot of Mainers in a medical crisis of the time/Human experience in Maine.