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Item 100345

Coopers Mills Baptist Church, Whitefield, ca. 1908

Contributed by: Whitefield Historical Society Date: circa 1908 Location: Whitefield Media: Postcard

Item 100350

Coopers Mills Baptist Church, Whitefield, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Whitefield Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Whitefield Media: Postcard

Item 6205

Tent with Peace Flag flying

Contributed by: Eliot Baha'i Archives Date: circa 1900 Location: Eliot Media: Photographic print

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Shaarey Tphiloh synagogue, Portland, ca. 1911

Shaarey Tphiloh, Portland's Orthodox Synagogue

Shaarey Tphiloh was founded in 1904 by immigrants from Eastern Europe. While accommodating to American society, the Orthodox synagogue also has retained many of its traditions.

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Trustees' Office, Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, ca. 1915

In Time and Eternity: Shakers in the Industrial Age

"In Time and Eternity: Maine Shakers in the Industrial Age 1872-1918" is a series of images that depict in detail the Shakers in Maine during a little explored time period of expansion and change.

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Carved eagle for Anshe Sfard synagogue Torah ark, Portland, ca. 1917

Anshe Sfard, Portland's Early Chassidic Congregation

Chassidic Jews who came to Portland from Eastern Europe formed a congregation in the late 19th century and, in 1917, built a synagogue -- Anshe Sfard -- on Cumberland Avenue in Portland. By the early 1960s, the congregation was largely gone. The building was demolished in 1983.