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Item 27979
Title: Jacob Abbott and Fewacres, Farmington, 1903
Contributed by: Farmington Public Library
Date: 1903
Location: Farmington
Media: black and white engraving; ink on paper
Item 31226
Title: Thursday Club program, Biddeford, 1897
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library
Date: 1897
Location: Biddeford
Media: Ink on paper, ribbon
Item 30882
Title: Julia, and the Illuminated Baron, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1800
Contributed by: Abplanalp Library, UNE
Date: 1800
Location: York
Media: Ink on paper
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Published women authors with ties to Maine are too numerous to count. They have made their marks in all types of literature.
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Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man and a poet of New England conscience. He was influenced by his ancestry and his Portland boyhood home and experience.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's popularity in the 19th century is reflected by the number of images of him -- in a variety of media -- that were produced and reproduced, some to go with published works of his, but many to be sold to the public on cards and postcards.