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Frye Island Historical Society

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Portland Soldiers and Sailors Monument Association stock certificate, ca. 1883

South Portland Historical Society

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 1 of 5

"… Historical Society Following the Revolutionary War, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts needed to raise money to pay off its huge war debts."

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Oriental Powder Mills gunpowder keg, Gorham and Windham, ca. 1860

Windham Historical Society

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Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas

"Thomas served in the navy during World War I. After his discharge in 1919, he established his own office in Portland, where he practiced until the…"

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Ox Cart at N.W. Marston's Store, South Lubec, ca. 1880

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… north into eastern Maine during French and Indian War 1755 • British deport Acadians to Maine and other New England communities 1775 • Machias…"

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Skating on the Androscoggin River, ca. 1890

Androscoggin Historical Society

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Sebago Historical Society

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Sardine carrier Mary Anne christened, Thomaston, 1947, 1947

Rockland Historical Society

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Burnham and Morrill Company Trademark for Scarboro Beach Clams, 1891

Maine State Archives

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Log Pile and Worker-Fred Howard, ca. 1900

Patten Lumbermen's Museum

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National Archives at Boston

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Yellow birch logs, Atlas Plywood Co., Greenville, ca. 1955

Moosehead Historical Society

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Print of McLellan House in Gorham, ca. 1773

Gorham Historical Society

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Maine General Hospital in moonlight, Portland, ca. 1909

Mercy Hospital - Portland Hospitals Before Mercy

"The Civil War (1861-1865) also encouraged both the growth of the medical profession in the United States and the government’s investment in it for…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"… north of Meeting House Park is the town's World War I Memorial Arch. References The "Abstract", a local compilation of highlights from newspaper…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Dow Field was deactivated. Soon a new war in Korea broke out and a new term coined: "The Cold War." The air base was reactivated in the early 1950s…"

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Self portrait by Rev. Jonathan Fisher, Blue Hill, ca. 1824

Blue Hill, Maine - Jonathan Fisher: Unlocking the Person Beyond the Parson

"… died in 1777 while serving in the Revolutionary War, leaving his mother as the sole support of the family."

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News office storefront, Portland, ca. 1918

Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"… killed in the much more publicized First World War (1914-1918). In the United States, about 670,000 people died of the flu, out of a population of…"