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Item 26788
Title: Aroostook Valley Car, Washburn, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Seashore Trolley Museum
Date: circa 1910
Location: Washburn
Media: Postcard
Item 35479
Title: I.O.O.F. Badge, Lubec, 1893-1933
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society
Location: Lubec
Media: Lithographed metal and fabric badge
Item 78663
Title: Odd Fellows Hall, Westbrook, 1883
Contributed by: Walker Memorial Library
Date: 1883
Location: Westbrook
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In Maine, like many other states, a newly formed Ku Klux Klan organization began recruiting members in the years just before the United States entered World War I. A message of patriotism and cautions about immigrants and non-Protestants drew many thousands of members into the secret organization in the early 1920s. By the end of the decade, the group was largely gone from Maine.
Exhibit
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.