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Historical Items

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Item 15977

As You Like It Club, South Portland, ca. 1910

Contributed by: An individual through South Portland Public Library Date: circa 1910 Location: South Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 14815

First Baptist Church, South Portland, ca. 1930

Contributed by: An individual through South Portland Public Library Date: circa 1930 Location: South Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 79497

Adeline Walker on conditions at Annapolis hospital, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Portland; Annapolis Media: Ink on paper

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Online Exhibits

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How Sweet It Is

Desserts have always been a special treat. For centuries, Mainers have enjoyed something sweet as a nice conclusion to a meal or celebrate a special occasion. But many things have changed over the years: how cooks learn to make desserts, what foods and tools were available, what was important to people.

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Les Raquetteurs

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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A Riot of Words: Ballads, Posters, Proclamations and Broadsides

Imagine a day 150 years ago. Looking down a side street, you see the buildings are covered with posters and signs.

Site Pages

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - New Sweden Athletic Club

"The club wanted to be known as a regular club but it soon became known as the New Sweden Athletic Club or NSAC."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - National Blue Ribbon School

"Somewhere along the line you will get a chance to step up and take an opportunity." Roger Lambert, who had attended the Strong School as a child when…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Patten Free Library

"… and history that make it a special and unique part of Bath. We hope that you have enjoyed learning about the Patten Free Library of Bath, Maine."

My Maine Stories

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The Wall
by Michael Uhl

What it means to have beaten the odds

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A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down

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Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey

MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR