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Historical Items Showing 3 of 757 View All
Item 81001
Title: Boy Scout Band, Princeton, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Princeton Public Library
Date: circa 1910
Location: Princeton
Media: photograph
Item 74464
Title: Wiscasset Boy Scout circus, 1970
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1970
Location: Wiscasset
Media:
Item 17997
Title: Boy Scouts on Derby turntable, c. 1955
Contributed by: Oakfield Historical Society
Date: circa 1955
Location: Derby
Media: Photograph
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Item 55997
Item 67637
Address: 138 Oxford Street, Portland
Owner in 1924: Maine Home for Friendless Boys
Use: Dwelling - Single family
Item 67642
Address: 149-151 Oxford Street, Portland
Owner in 1924: Maine Home for Homeless Boys
Use: Apartments & Store
Exhibits Showing 3 of 5 View All
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George W. Hinckley and Needy Boys and Girls
George W. Hinckley wanted to help needy boys. The farm, school and home he ran for nearly sixty nears near Fairfield stressed home, religion, education, discipline, industry, and recreation.
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Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador
"The Bowdoin Boys" -- some students and recent graduates -- traveled to Labrador in 1891 to collect artifacts, specimens, and to try to find Grand Falls, a waterfall deep in Labrador's interior.
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"Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans"
Concern about immigrants and their loyalty in the post World War I era led to programs to "Americanize" them -- an effort to help them learn English and otherwise adjust to life in the United States. Clara Soule ran one such program for the Portland Public Schools, hoping it would help the immigrants be accepted.