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Historical Items

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Item 11853

Bangor Daily News at the Capitol

Contributed by: Margaret Chase Smith Library Date: 1962-04-10 Location: Washington; Bangor Media: Photographic print

Item 11879

State Capitol, Augusta, ca. 1927

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1927-09-27 Location: Augusta Media: Postcard

Item 11871

State Capitol, Augusta, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Augusta; Farmington Media: Postcard

Tax Records

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Item 63341

230 Middle Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: The Capitol Lunch Co. Use: Lunch Room & Tailor Shop

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 111318

Proposed State Capitol Building, Portland, 1889

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1889 Location: Portland Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens and Albert Winslow Cobb Architects

Item 109929

Maine Sate Capitol Preliminary Plan, Augusta, 1931

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1931 Location: Augusta Client: State of Maine Architect: Olmsted Brothers

Item 109389

Rearrangement of Blaine Mansion for Governor's Residence, Augusta, 1919

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1919 Location: Augusta; Augusta Client: State of Maine Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Online Exhibits

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Civil Defense: Fear and Safety

In the 1950s and the 1960s, Maine's Civil Defense effort focused on preparedness for hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters and a more global concern, nuclear war. Civil Defense materials urged awareness, along with measures like storing food and other staple items and preparing underground or other shelters.

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The Sanitary Commission: Meeting Needs of Soldiers, Families

The Sanitary Commission, formed soon after the Civil War began in the spring of 1861, dealt with the health, relief needs, and morale of soldiers and their families. The Maine Agency helped families and soldiers with everything from furloughs to getting new socks.

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Good Will-Hinckley: Building a Landscape

The landscape at the Good Will-Hinckley campus in Fairfield was designed to help educate and influence the orphans and other needy children at the school and home.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Captain Samuel Watts House

"With their extra capitol, they were able to invest in railroads in the developing western territories, which increased their net worth to the extent…"

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Maine Historic Preservation Commission

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New Sweden Historical Society

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My Maine Stories

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Story

Being an NP during social unrest
by Jacqueline P. Fournier

A snapshot of Mainers in a medical crisis of the time/Human experience in Maine.

Story

USCG Boot Camp Experience, Vietnam War era
by Peter S. Morgan, Jr.

"Letters to the Wall" Memorial Day