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Item 21574
Title: Civilian Conservation Corps Camp, Bar Harbor, 1940
Contributed by: Trenton Cemetery & Keeping Society
Date: 1940
Location: Bar Harbor; Mount Desert
Media: Photograph
Item 1164
Title: Peck's department store, Lewiston, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1900
Location: Lewiston
Media: Black and white photograph
Item 74771
Title: 'Let's Conserve' button, ca. 1976
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1976
Media: Metal, celluloid
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Putting Men to Work, Saving Trees
While many Mainers were averse to accepting federal relief money during the Great Depression of the 1930s, young men eagerly joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of President Franklin Roosevelt's most popular programs. The Maine Forest Service supervised the work of many of the camps.
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Maine's ample woods historically provided numerous game animals and birds for hunters seeking food, fur, or hides. The promotion of hunting as tourism and concerns about conservation toward the end of the nineteenth century changed the nature of hunting in Maine.
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Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine
As early as 1633, entrepreneurs along the Piscataqua River in southern Maine utilized the force of the river to power a sawmill, recognizing the potential of the area's natural power sources, but it was not until the 1890s that technology made widespread electricity a reality -- and even then, consumers had to be urged to use it.