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Item 192
Title: Ku Klux Klan outfit, Hollis, 1963
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1963-08-04
Location: Hollis Center
Media: Black and white photograph
Item 53713
Title: Alpha Rho Upsilon, Bowdoin College, 1948
Contributed by: Bowdoin College Library
Date: 1948
Location: Brunswick
Media: Ink on paper
Item 75554
Title: Women and men in manufacturing, Brewer, ca. 1982-2004
Contributed by: Maine Folklife Center, Univ. of Maine
Date: 2006-01-20
Location: Brewer
Media: audio recording
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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.