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Item 31196
Title: Thursday Club anniversary program, Biddeford, 1939
Contributed by: Biddeford Historical Society
Date: 1939-01-04
Location: Biddeford
Media: Ink on paper
Item 33470
Title: Delegates to Federation of Women's Clubs meeting, Saco, 1911
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library
Date: 1911
Location: Saco
Media: photograph
Item 29261
Title: Thursday Club tea cup, Biddeford, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Biddeford Historical Society
Date: circa 1900
Location: Biddeford
Media: China
Tax Records Showing 3 of 21 View All
Item 32296
Address: 72-74 Atlantic Street, Portland
Owner in 1924: Munjoy Club Building Association
Use: Club House
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Item 52693
Exhibits Showing 3 of 16 View All
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Hiking, Art and Science: Portland's White Mountain Club
In 1873, a group of men, mostly from Portland, formed the second known hiking club in the U.S., the White Mountain Club of Portland, to carry out their scientific interests, their love of hiking and camaraderie, and their artistic interests in painting and drawing the features of several of the White Mountains.
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In the early 1600s, French explorers and colonizers in the New World quickly adopted a Native American mode of transportation to get around during the harsh winter months: the snowshoe. Most Northern societies had some form of snowshoe, but the Native Americans turned it into a highly functional item. French settlers named snowshoes "raquettes" because they resembled the tennis racket then in use.
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In Maine, like many other states, a newly formed Ku Klux Klan organization began recruiting members in the years just before the United States entered World War I. A message of patriotism and cautions about immigrants and non-Protestants drew many thousands of members into the secret organization in the early 1920s. By the end of the decade, the group was largely gone from Maine.
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project
Highlights of Biddeford history presented by McArthur Public Library, Biddeford Historical Society, and Biddeford High School’s Project ASPIRE class. The site explores shipbuilding, the Civil War homefront, women’s clubs, influential residents, and some of the city’s famous artists and inventors.
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village
The history of a small western Maine community north of Farmington as told by a team consisting of Strong Historical Society, Strong Elementary School, and Strong Public Library. Exhibit topics include Strong's prominence in the wood products industry (it was once the "Toothpick Capital of the World"), the "Bridge that Changed the Map," schools and educational history, clubs and organizations, "Fly Rod" Crosby, the first Maine guide, and a rich student section related to the Civil War and post-Civil War era in the town.