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Old Homestead Ginger Beer, Saint Stephen and Calais, ca. 1900

Kings Landing Historical Settlement

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Lilian Washburn with cow, Livermore, ca. 1900

Washburn-Norlands Living History Center

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Islesboro Historical Society

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Moody School, Good Will Farm, Fairfield, 1911

L.C. Bates Museum/Good Will-Hinckley

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Buckfield

"High School Portland and Rumford Falls Sunday Paper Train August 1898, BuckfieldGreater Rumford Area Historical Society Buckfield was first…"

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Plot plan for the new Mercy Hospital, Portland, 1941

Mercy Hospital - Growth & Expansion - Page 1 of 2

"… for the 140 students then enrolled in the School of Nursing. The new expansion was formally dedicated on March 18 and 19, 1943 by Bishop McCarthy…"

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Two women with whiskey glasses, ca. 1854

Early Maine Photography - Human Interest

"Cummings graduated from the Medical School of Maine at Bowdoin College in 1823 and practiced medicine in Portland with his father Stephen Cummings."

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Early Maine Photography - War - Page 1 of 2

"… took him to Bangor, where he preached and taught school from 1812 to 1818. That year he settled in Garland, where he devoted most of the balance of…"

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Log Cabin and Hard Cider Club, Portland, ca. 1850

Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 1 of 2

"… them together in a photographer’s studio – school, friendship, or family? Other group daguerreotypes in the Society’s collection are more clearly…"

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Champlain Society, Mount Desert Island, 1881

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"… by the landscape painters of the Hudson River School and writings of John Ruskin. Magazine and newspaper reporters described the places one could…"

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Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"… on Independence Day, “to be formed at junction of School, Main and Church Sts.” according to the official program."

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Fairbanks Building on fire, Bangor, 1911

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"As the fire spread towards Bangor High School, the principal and several students rescued 19 typewriters and all of the school’s trophies before the…"

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Winter Harbor Historical Society

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… Each of the 12 towns in the Western Foothills School District (RSU 10) has its own history and identity, but they all have much in common besides…"

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Dixfield House and Tuscan Opera House, Dixfield, ca. 1895

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House

"Because Dixfield schools had no auditorium before 1970, graduations, plays, prize speaking, proms and all manner of school productions were held at…"

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Letter to Sarah Tarbox from her mother, 1838

Westport Island History Committee

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Mercy Hospital - Sisters of Mercy

"… arrived in Bangor, Maine where they opened a school that later became Saint John School. In 1873, Bishop David Bacon invited them to Portland to…"

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News office storefront, Portland, ca. 1918

Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"Schools and public places closed as well. In neighboring towns like Bath, people tagged their houses with white cards or red letters warning people…"