Keywords: Sport shows
Item 17572
New York Sportsman's Show booth, 1897
Contributed by: Phillips Historical Society Date: 1897 Location: New York Media: Photographic print
Item 35049
Portland Horse Show Association program, 1937
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1937-09-25 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
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From the last decades of the nineteenth century through about the 1920s, vacationers were attracted to large resort hotels that promised a break from the noise, crowds, and pressures of an ever-urbanizing country.
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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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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Sports
"… High School Sports View a High School Sports Slideshow Sports, as in newspapers around the globe, occupied a prominent role in the Press…"
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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Wiscasset's Arctic Connection
"… View the Wiscasset's Arctic Connection Slide Show Text by Cindy Dykes Images from Maine Historical Society, Blethen Maine Newspapers Explorer…"
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History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
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COME OUT SWINGIN'!
by Brian Daly
I wrote a musical comedy about Lewiston hosting the Ali-Liston title fight in 1965.
