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Historical Items Showing 3 of 272 View All
Item 67305
Title: Ball Toss & Catch Game, Strong Wood Turning Corp., ca. 1955
Contributed by: Strong Historical Society
Date: circa 1955
Location: Strong
Media: Lacquered wood
Item 6882
Title: Jack-straws game, ca. 1872
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1872
Media: Wood, leather
Item 10592
Title: Game of Authors playing card
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1900
Location: Cambridge; Portland
Media: Paper
Exhibits Showing 3 of 5 View All
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Baseball often is called the National Pastime. For many people, baseball is encountered in the backyard and down the street, a game played by a few or the full contingent of a team.
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Maine's ample woods historically provided numerous game animals and birds for hunters seeking food, fur, or hides. The promotion of hunting as tourism and concerns about conservation toward the end of the nineteenth century changed the nature of hunting in Maine.
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Art of the People: Folk Art in Maine
For many different reasons people saved and carefully preserved the objects in this exhibit. Eventually, along with the memories they hold, the objects were passed to the Maine Historical Society. Object and memory, serve as a powerful way to explore history and to connect to the lives of people in the past.