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Window display, Benoit's, Portland, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Portland; Westbrook; Biddeford Media: Photoprint

Houlton Grange stained glass window, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Houlton Grange Date: circa 1900 Location: Houlton Media: Glass and lead

29 Pine Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Anna R Burrill Use: Garage

Julian/Forrest residence, Kennebunkport, 2009-2014

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2009–2014 Location: Kennebunkport; Kennebunkport Clients: Nancie M. Julian; William D. Forrest Architect: Carol A. Wilson; Carol A. Wilson Architect
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Alterations in Window for Hon. D. J. McGillicuddy, Lewiston, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Lewiston Client: D. J. McGillicuddy Architect: Harry S. Coombs

West Baldwin Methodist Church

The West Baldwin Methodist Church, founded in 1826, was one of three original churches in Baldwin. While its location has remained the same, the church has undergone numerous changes to serve the changing community.

Atherton Furniture

LeBaron Atherton's furniture empire consisted of ten stores, four of which were in Maine. The photos are reminiscent of a different era in retailing.

Lincoln, Maine - Weatherbee Hardware Store window display, Lincoln, ca. 1943

"Weatherbee Hardware Store window display, Lincoln, ca. 1943 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description This display shows…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The Edward O'Brien House

"Full-length windows carried to the floor on the first floor of both houses. Each house had decorated vergeboards along the eaves, and porches…"

Born in Bangor 1936
by Priscilla M. Naile

Spending time at the Bangor Children's Home

The Cup Code (working at OOB in the 1960s)
by Randy Randall

Teenagers cooking fried food in OOB and the code used identify the product and quantity.

Longfellow Studies: "The Jewish Cemetery at Newport"

Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12 Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
Longfellow's poem "The Jewish Cemetery at Newport" opens up the issue of the earliest history of the Jews in America, and the significant roles they played as businessmen and later benefactors to the greater community. The history of the building itself is notable in terms of early American architecture, its having been designed, apparently gratis, by the most noted architect of the day. Furthermore, the poem traces the history of Newport as kind of a microcosm of New England commercial cities before the industrialization boom. For almost any age student the poem could be used to open up interest in local cemeteries, which are almost always a wealth of curiousities and history. Longfellow and his friends enjoyed exploring cemeteries, and today our little local cemeteries can be used to teach little local histories and parts of the big picture as well. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow visited the Jewish cemetery in Newport, RI on July 9, 1852. His popular poem about the site, published two years later, was certainly a sympathetic portrayal of the place and its people. In addition to Victorian romantic musings about the "Hebrews in their graves," Longfellow includes in this poem references to the historic persecution of the Jews, as well as very specific references to their religious practices. Since the cemetery and the nearby synagogue were restored and protected with an infusion of funding just a couple years after Longfellow's visit, and later a congregation again assembled, his gloomy predictions about the place proved false (never mind the conclusion of the poem, "And the dead nations never rise again!"). Nevertheless, it is a fascinating poem, and an interesting window into the history of the nation's oldest extant synagogue.