Keywords: Suitcases
Item 80674
John Edward Barry suitcase, ca. 1925
Contributed by: Mexico Historical Society Date: circa 1925 Location: Rangeley Media: Photographic print
Item 16825
Henry Thurston Clark trunk, ca. 1872
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1872 Location: Bangor; San Francisco; Halifax Media: Wood, metal, leather, tin
Exhibit
Gifts From Gluskabe: Maine Indian Artforms
According to legend, the Great Spirit created Gluskabe, who shaped the world of the Native People of Maine, and taught them how to use and respect the land and the resources around them. This exhibit celebrates the gifts of Gluskabe with Maine Indian art works from the early nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries.
Exhibit
The history of the region now known as Maine did not begin at statehood in 1820. What was Maine before it was a state? How did Maine separate from Massachusetts? How has the Maine we experience today been shaped by thousands of years of history?
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - A Man's Life in a Suitcase
"The battered suitcase was packed with keepsakes relating to someone named John Barry, who had ties to Mexico, Maine."
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Disasters - Natural and Man-made
"Mr. Webber's suitcase X Mr. Sumner Webber, the City Historian and a retired Hall-Dale teacher, brought a suitcase full of resource materials to…"
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
