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Title: Sidewalk work, Biddeford, ca. 1934

Contributed by: Maine State Archives

Date: circa 1934

Location: Biddeford

Media: silver gelatin print

Title: Hobo Den, Topsham, ca. 1933

Contributed by: Pejepscot Historical Society

Date: circa 1933

Location: Topsham

Media: print, photograph

Title: Sts. Peter and Paul Basilica, Lewiston, 2005

Contributed by: Franco-American Collection

Date: 2005

Location: Lewiston

Media: Photograph

Capturing Arts and Artists in the 1930s

Emmie Bailey Whitney of the Lewiston Journal Saturday Magazine and her husband, noted amateur photographer G. Herbert Whitney, captured in words and photographs the richness of Maine's arts scene during the Great Depression.

Putting Men to Work, Saving Trees

While many Mainers were averse to accepting federal relief money during the Great Depression of the 1930s, young men eagerly joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of President Franklin Roosevelt's most popular programs. The Maine Forest Service supervised the work of many of the camps.

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea

The history of a town on the northern bank of the St. George River, as told by representatives from Thomaston Historical Society, Thomaston Public Library, Montpelier: the General Henry Knox Museum, and students from Georges Valley High School. Architecture, General Knox, the Civil War, the Great Depression, and the state prison are some of the topics covered.

Bath's Historic Downtown

The history of downtown Bath as created by the students of Bath Middle School, with assistance from members of the Sagadahoc History & Genealogy Room at the Patten Free Library and Bath Historical Society. Seventeen exhibits examine various historic blocks in the downtown section of the city.