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Keywords: Lewiston Mills
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Item 9658
Title: Gas Patch demolition, Lewiston, ca. 1960
Contributed by: Lewiston Public Library
Date: circa 1960
Location: Lewiston
Media: Phototransparency
Item 9660
Title: Gas tank, Lewiston, ca. 1960
Contributed by: Lewiston Public Library
Date: circa 1960
Location: Lewiston
Media: Phototransparency
Item 7248
Title: Raw cotton, Lewiston, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Lewiston Public Library
Date: circa 1900
Location: Lewiston
Media: phototransparency
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From French Canadians to Franco-Americans
French Canadians who emigrated to the Lewiston-Auburn area faced discrimination as children and adults -- such as living in "Little Canada" tenements and being ridiculed for speaking French -- but also adapted to their new lives and sustained many cultural traditions.
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Lewiston, Maine's second largest city, was long looked upon by many as a mill town with grimy smoke stacks, crowded tenements, low-paying jobs, sleazy clubs and little by way of refinement, except for Bates College. Yet, a noted Québec historian, Robert Rumilly, described it as "the French Athens of New England."
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In Time and Eternity: Shakers in the Industrial Age
"In Time and Eternity: Maine Shakers in the Industrial Age 1872-1918" is a series of images that depict in detail the Shakers in Maine during a little explored time period of expansion and change.