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Item 9566
Title: Mark and Emily Turner Memorial Library, Presque Isle, 1908
Contributed by: Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library
Date: 1908
Location: Presque Isle
Media: Photoprint
Item 9267
Title: Lewiston Public Library, Lewiston, ca. 1960
Contributed by: Lewiston Public Library
Date: circa 1960
Location: Lewiston
Media: Postcard
Item 23810
Title: Old Dyer Library Shelf Stacks, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Dyer Library Archives / Saco Museum
Date: circa 1900
Location: Saco
Media: Photograph
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Educating Oneself: Carnegie Libraries
Industrialist Andrew Carnegie gave grants for 20 libraries in Maine between 1897 and 1912, specifying that the town own the land, set aside funds for maintenance, have room to expand -- and offer library services at no charge.
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Maine's first governor, William King, was arguably the most influential figure in Maine's achieving statehood in 1820. Although he served just one year as the Governor of Maine, he was instrumental in establishing the new state's constitution and setting up its governmental infrastructure.
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These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.
