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Item 33938

Biddeford High School Alumni Association banquet program, 1894

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1894-06-26 Location: Biddeford Media: Ink and paint on paper

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Item 81540

Portland Water District banquet, 1915

Contributed by: Portland Water District Date: 1915-02-09 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 35389

Testimonial Banquet ticket, Bangor, 1939

Contributed by: John Bapst Memorial High School Date: 1939-05-31 Location: Bangor Media: Ink on paper

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La St-Jean in Lewiston-Auburn

St-Jean-Baptiste Day -- June 24th -- in Lewiston-Auburn was a very public display of ethnic pride for nearly a century. Since about 1830, French Canadians had used St. John the Baptist's birthdate as a demonstration of French-Canadian nationalism.

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Jack Lawrence, Saco, on Bicycle, ca. 1900

A Craze for Cycling

Success at riding a bike mirrored success in life. Bicycling could bring families together. Bicycling was good for one's health. Bicycling was fun. Bicycles could go fast. Such were some of the arguments made to induce many thousands of people around Maine and the nation to take up the new pastime at the end of the nineteenth century.

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Lillian Nordica: Farmington Diva

Lillian Norton, known as Nordica, was one of the best known sopranos in America and the world at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. She was a native of Farmington.