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Item 12922
Title: Caribou Amateur Opera Company
Contributed by: Caribou Public Library
Date: 1898-02-10
Location: Caribou
Media: monochrome photograph
Item 12920
Title: Caribou Amateur Opera Company, 1898
Contributed by: Caribou Public Library
Date: 1898-02-10
Location: Caribou
Media: monochrome photograph
Item 35409
Title: Loanes store and Opera House, Ashland, ca. 1895
Contributed by: Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library
Date: circa 1895
Location: Syracuse; Ashland
Media: glass negative
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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.
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Lewiston, Maine's second largest city, was long looked upon by many as a mill town with grimy smoke stacks, crowded tenements, low-paying jobs, sleazy clubs and little by way of refinement, except for Bates College. Yet, a noted Québec historian, Robert Rumilly, described it as "the French Athens of New England."
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The Downeast community's history as presented by a broad-based team of representatives from Surry Elementary School and Surry Historical Society. Topics covered include the Surry Opera House and Surry Playhouse, the Surry Village School and education over time in the community, sawmills, and early property owner Phebe Fowler. Students scanned and transcribed a large number of the items digitized for the project.
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The history of downtown Bath as created by the students of Bath Middle School, with assistance from members of the Sagadahoc History & Genealogy Room at the Patten Free Library and Bath Historical Society. Seventeen exhibits examine various historic blocks in the downtown section of the city.