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These sites were created for each contributing partner or as part of collaborative community projects through Maine Memory. Learn about collaborative projects on MMN.


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Portland Public Library

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Steep Falls Library

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Farmington Public Library

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Skowhegan Free Public Library

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McArthur Public Library

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Prince Memorial Library

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor

"… be employed in any lawful work or labour..." Male children could be bound out until they turned 21; female children until they turned 18 or were…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… in Gray on January 26, 1840, the third of six children and the second son born to Nathaniel Sawtelle Lawrence and Mary Ann Harris Lawrence."

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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters Historic Site

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Icons & Influencers

"MHS received an Institute of Library and Museum Services (IMLS) grant in 2015 to digitize the full collection, which is now available online."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"The Strathglass residence children attended Chisholm School (the former high school). Those living in the Virginia section of town had the Virginia…"

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Early Maine Photography - MHS Early Maine Photography Collections

"… support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Maine Historical Society inventoried, rehoused and digitized its daguerreotypes…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"Dorothy and Hervey never had any children, but Dorothy gave many local children piano lessons. Hervey would allow the kids to help him bring in the…"

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Blue Hill, Maine - Meet Blue Hill's Project Team

"The Blue Hill Library serves children and adults of all backgrounds and circumstances who seek information and the pleasure that comes from the life…"

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Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen

"… Memorial Library J: Susie, there were 12 children in your family. Was everyone working in fishing or fish processing? S: Yes, in the factories…"

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… Memorial Library Entire families, including children, found work processing sardines. During the season workers came from Campobello, Grand Manan…"

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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 4 of 4

"… good schools and the right place to raise their children. Putting Together First Issue of Weekly Packet, December 1, 1960Blue Hill Historical…"

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 2 of 2

"It started in the library, which did not have a fireplace or stove, and the watchman was absent. After the fire, students were moved to the Annex…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Church on the Hill

"… It was a happy and fun time of year that the children of Dixfield would look forward to and in which the whole community would participate."

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Lubec, Maine - Team Members

"This project is supported by a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum & Library Services."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - National Blue Ribbon School

""The town can now continue educating it's children at home and have a community school where it ought to be", he said."

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"Six more children were born of this union, two of whom were William and Cyrus. Three of Richard’s children, Rufus, William and Cyrus, became major…"