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Keywords: Interiors
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Item 79999
Title: Steamboat Governor Coburn Interior, ca. 1870
Contributed by: Moosehead Historical Society
Date: circa 1870
Location: Greenville
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Item 28490
Title: Patten Free Library Interior, ca.1891
Contributed by: Patten Free Library
Date: circa 1891
Location: Bath
Media: mounted sepia photograph
Item 7444
Title: MGH Hospital Ward
Contributed by: Maine Medical Center Archives
Date: circa 1930
Location: Portland
Media: Photograph
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Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador
"The Bowdoin Boys" -- some students and recent graduates -- traveled to Labrador in 1891 to collect artifacts, specimens, and to try to find Grand Falls, a waterfall deep in Labrador's interior.
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Like many cities in France, Lewiston and Auburn's skylines are dominated by a cathedral-like structure, St. Peter and Paul Church. Now designated a basilica by the Vatican, it stands as a symbol of French Catholic contributions to the State of Maine.
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Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine
As early as 1633, entrepreneurs along the Piscataqua River in southern Maine utilized the force of the river to power a sawmill, recognizing the potential of the area's natural power sources, but it was not until the 1890s that technology made widespread electricity a reality -- and even then, consumers had to be urged to use it.