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Keywords: Freedom

Historical Items

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Item 6619

Post Office Square, Freedom, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Freedom Media: Photoprint

Item 109065

Freedom Academy and Freedom Lumber Company, Freedom, 1948

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: 1948 Location: Freedom Media: Film Negative

Item 79283

William M. Spinney on death of wife, Freedom, 1842

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1842 Location: Freedom Media: Ink on paper

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Online Exhibits

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Scarborough: They Answered the Call

Scarborough met every quota set by the state for supplying Civil War soldiers for Union regiments. Some of those who responded became prominent citizens of the town.

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Passing the Time: Artwork by World War II German POWs

In 1944, the US Government established Camp Houlton, a prisoner of war (POW) internment camp for captured German soldiers during World War II. Many of the prisoners worked on local farms planting and harvesting potatoes. Some created artwork and handicrafts they sold or gave to camp guards. Camp Houlton processed and held about 3500 prisoners and operated until May 1946.

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Fashionable Maine: early twentieth century clothing

Maine residents kept pace with the dramatic shift in women’s dress that occurred during the short number of years preceding and immediately following World War I. The long restrictive skirts, stiff collars, body molding corsets and formal behavior of earlier decades quickly faded away and the new straight, dropped waist easy-to-wear clothing gave mobility and freedom of movement in tune with the young independent women of the casual, post-war jazz age generation.

Site Pages

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Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 1 of 3

"… Images from After moving to the United States for freedom and to avoid the Vietnam War, my parents had to adapt a lot."

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Blue Hill Public Library

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

My Maine Stories

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Thoughts of Freedom
by Raymond

Painting my thoughts and loves while incarcerated at Maine State Prison

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The Equal Freedom to Marry
by Mary L Bonauto

Marriage Equality, Maine, and the U.S. Supreme Court

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Hasan Jasim: Putting his life on the line for this country
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center

An Iraqi interpreter shares insights on the value and price of freedom