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Historical Items Showing 3 of 754 View All
Item 39361
Title: Boys on Main Street, Bangor, ca. 1895
Contributed by: Bangor Museum and Center for History
Date: circa 1895
Location: Bangor
Media: Glass-plate Negative
Item 53152
Title: Good Will Boys, Fairfield, ca. 1920
Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes
Date: circa 1920
Location: Fairfield
Media: Photographic print
Item 54284
Title: Good Will boys, Fairfield, ca. 1920
Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes
Date: circa 1920
Location: Fairfield
Media: Photographic print
Tax Records Showing 3 of 4 View All
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.