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Item 1451
Item 5657
Title: John Dunn's Moosehead Lake 1889 diary
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1889
Media: Ink on paper
Item 9240
Title: Diary of Thomas Lancaster, New Sharon
Contributed by: New Sharon Historical Society
Location: New Sharon
Media: paper
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Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
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Rebecca Usher, Civil War Nurse
Rebecca Usher of Hollis signed letters that she penned for wounded Civil War soldiers with the saying, "Yours for the Soldier, Rebecca Usher." She was one of 20,000 women who worked in Union military hospitals.
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Following his historic flight across the Atlantic in May 1927, aviator Charles Lindbergh commenced a tour across America, greeted by cheering crowds at every stop. He was a day late for his speaking engagement in Portland, due to foggy conditions. Elise Fellows White wrote in her diary about seeing Lindbergh and his plane.