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Item 22203
Title: Christy McHugh, Carroll, New Hampshire, 1951
Contributed by: Ski Museum of Maine
Date: 1951
Location: Carroll
Media: Photograph
Item 17511
Title: Dearborn Inn, Kearsarge, New Hampshire
Contributed by: Fryeburg Historical Society
Date: circa 1947
Location: Kearsarge
Media: Photograph
Item 76574
Title: Topsham hand pumper Androscoggin No. 2, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1938
Contributed by: Town of Topsham
Date: 1938-08-06
Location: Portsmouth; Topsham
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.
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William Ladd, the Apostle of Peace
William Ladd of Minot, a former ship captain and cotton farmer, wanted to abolish slavery, believed in temperance and other causes, but even more passionately, he wanted nations to agree to international peace. He was the founder of the American Peace Society in 1828.
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Hiking, Art and Science: Portland's White Mountain Club
In 1873, a group of men, mostly from Portland, formed the second known hiking club in the U.S., the White Mountain Club of Portland, to carry out their scientific interests, their love of hiking and camaraderie, and their artistic interests in painting and drawing the features of several of the White Mountains.
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New Hampshire Historical Society
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