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Item 11884
Title: Post Office and Revenue Offices, Augusta, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1920
Location: Augusta
Media: Postcard
Item 12240
Title: Mere Point Post Office and Store, Brunswick
Contributed by: Pejepscot Historical Society
Date: circa 1925
Location: Brunswick
Media: Postcard
Item 79073
Title: East Dixfield Post Office and General Store, Wilton, ca. 1914
Contributed by: Dixfield Historical Society
Date: circa 1914
Location: Wilton
Media: postcard
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Post office clerks began collecting strong red, white, and blue string, rolling it onto a ball and passing it on to the next post office to express their support for the Union effort in the Civil War. Accompanying the ball was this paper scroll on which the clerks wrote messages and sometimes drew images.
Exhibit
Urban renewal, a post World War II impulse to clean up "slums" and other blights in urban areas, led both to renewed economic activities in some cities and towns in Maine and the loss of a number of grand buildings. The loss of the structures helped prompt historic preservation efforts in the state.
Exhibit
Unlocking the Declaration's Secrets
Fewer than 30 copies of the first printing of the Declaration of Independence are known to exist. John Dunlap hurriedly printed copies for distribution to assemblies, conventions, committees and military officers. Authenticating authenticity of the document requires examination of numerous details of the broadside.