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Historical Items

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Item 23309

View of Portland from City Hall dome, ca. 1895

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Portland Media: Lantern slide

Item 8146

South Channel Dam bulkhead, Skowhegan, 1901

Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: 1901-12-16 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print

Item 11897

Cardenas Marketplace, Cuba, ca. 1857

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1857 Location: Cardenas; Portland Media: Ink on paper

Tax Records

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Item 85541

57-59 Westminster Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Anne T. Storey Use: Dwelling

Online Exhibits

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Maine and the Space Age

The small town of Andover landed on the international map in 1962 when the Earth Station that had been built there successfully communicated with Telstar, the first telecommunications satellite.

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Northern Threads: Adaptive reuse

A themed vignette within "Northern Threads Part I," featuring up-cycled and reused historic fabrics.

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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.

Site Pages

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1830-1850 - Page 3 of 3

"… late 1840s boned bodice, pointed waist, and dome shaped skirt. The frilled trimming may be a 1850s update. Damask dress, ca."

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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3

"… small frame and brick houses and buildings, the domed granite Merchants Exchange, and the Second Parish Church have long vanished, but their images…"

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Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"… a cast iron stairway and pedestal, a copper dome, and the ultimate in illumination, a Fresnel lens."