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Description
William Widgery Thomas, Jr. (1839-1927) stands outside the Spurwink District School in Cape Elizabeth. The school, erected in 1849, is where Thomas taught in 1857. It closed in 1913 due to low attendance rates and sold. In 1917, Thomas bought the building and transformed it into Thomas Memorial Library.
Thomas was a politician and diplomat from Maine, known for founding the town of New Sweden in Northern Maine. He traveled to Sweden and brought back a colony of Swedes to create the town in 1880.
About This Item
- Title: William Widgery Thomas, Jr., Cape Elizabeth, 1916
- Creation Date: 1916
- Subject Date: 1916
- Location: Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Lantern slide
- Dimensions: 29.5 cm x 36.1 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 2780, Box 13
- Collection: William Widgery Thomas collection
- Object Type: Image
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- Ambassadors--Norway
- Ambassadors--Sweden
- Bowdoin College
- Sweden--Emigration and immigration
- Swedish Americans--Maine
- Thomas family
- Thomas, William Widgery, 1839-1927
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