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Keywords: W. W. Thomas
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Item 17834
Title: William W. Thomas, New Sweden, ca. 1900
Contributed by: New Sweden Historical Society
Date: circa 1900
Location: New Sweden
Media: Photograph
Item 17833
Title: Portrait of William W. Thomas
Contributed by: New Sweden Historical Society
Date: 1885
Location: Stockholm
Media: Oil on Canvas
Item 18691
Title: W. W. Thomas Park, New Sweden, ca. 1922
Contributed by: Nylander Museum
Date: circa 1922
Location: New Sweden
Media: Photograph
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Maine and the U.S. government joined forces to attract Swedish immigrants to Aroostook County to help populate the area and secure Maine's northern border. The Swedish community grew and thrived in northern Maine.
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John Dunn, 19th Century Sportsman
John Warner Grigg Dunn was an accomplished amateur photographer, hunter, fisherman and lover of nature. On his trips to Ragged Lake and environs, he became an early innovator among amateur wildlife photographers. His photography left us with a unique record of the Moosehead Lake region in the late nineteenth century.
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John Bapst High School was dedicated in September 1928 to meet the expanding needs of Roman Catholic education in the Bangor area. The co-educational school operated until 1980, when the diocese closed it due to decreasing enrollment. Since then, it has been a private school known as John Bapst Memorial High School.
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village
The history of a small western Maine community north of Farmington as told by a team consisting of Strong Historical Society, Strong Elementary School, and Strong Public Library. Exhibit topics include Strong's prominence in the wood products industry (it was once the "Toothpick Capital of the World"), the "Bridge that Changed the Map," schools and educational history, clubs and organizations, "Fly Rod" Crosby, the first Maine guide, and a rich student section related to the Civil War and post-Civil War era in the town.