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Historical Items

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Mystery Corner Item

Item 102738

Deering High School guests pose with Dave Astor, Portland, 1962

Mystery Corner Item Can you identify the teenagers?

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1962-04-07 Location: Portland Media: Transparency Slide

Item 17060

Chair that President Lincoln sat in to pose for artist, 1860

Contributed by: Fryeburg Historical Society Date: 1860 Location: Fryeburg; Chicago Media: Wood

Item 104167

Young women of Millinocket, 1901

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1901 Location: Millinocket Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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People, Pets & Portraits

Informal family photos often include family pets -- but formal, studio portraits and paintings also often feature one person and one pet, in formal attire and pose.

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Eternal Images: Photographing Childhood

From the earliest days of photography doting parents from across Maine sought to capture images of their young children. The studio photographs often reflect the families' images of themselves and their status or desired status.

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Chinese in Maine

In 1857, when Daniel Cough left Amoy Island, China, as a stowaway on a sailing ship from Mt. Desert Island he was on his way into history as the first Chinese person to make his home in Maine. He was soon followed by a cigar maker and a tea merchant who settled in Portland and then by many more Chinese men who spread all over Maine working mostly as laundrymen.

Site Pages

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Historic Hallowell - The Blizzard - Works Cited

"Lewiston, ME: 1952 “The Blizzard Of 1952 As Folks Saw It In Lewiston And Auburn; This Pictorial Record Shows Problems Posed By Heavy Snow.” Lewiston…"

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Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 2 of 2

"… sisters are fashionably dressed and artistically posed around their mother, Anna Margaret Holwell Deering. The daughter of Major John Z."

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Early Maine Photography - War - Page 2 of 2

"There were two widely used poses, sitting and standing. Of the former, an unidentified soldier posed for this tintype in a field studio, with a…"

My Maine Stories

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What does a warming climate mean for Maine?
by David Reidmiller

Climate change affects all aspects of life. What does this mean for Maine?

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Rest Stop in Scarborough, Maine
by Lee Evans

This is about our first visit to Maine in 1998. My wife and I moved here from Maryland in 2007.

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I have thought about Vietnam almost every day for 48 years
by Ted Heselton

Working as a heavy equipment operator in Vietnam