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Historical Items

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Item 100735

Female jockeys at trotting park, Maine, ca. 1898

Contributed by: Maine Central Institute Date: circa 1898 Media: Postcard

Item 69988

Kite Race Track, Old Orchard Beach, ca. 1938

Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1938 Location: Old Orchard Beach Media: Linen texture postcard

Item 64427

Eastend Bunch, Biddeford, 1935

Contributed by: An individual through Biddeford Historical Society Date: 1935-08-25 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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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.

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Moosehead Steamboats

After the canoe, steamboats became the favored method of transportation on Moosehead Lake. They revolutionized movement of logs and helped promote tourism in the region.

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Portland Hotels

Since the establishment of the area's first licensed hotel in 1681, Portland has had a dramatic, grand and boisterous hotel tradition. The Portland hotel industry has in many ways reflected the growth and development of the city itself. As Portland grew with greater numbers of people moving through the city or calling it home, the hotel business expanded to fit the increasing demand.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Presque Isle: The Star City - Northern Maine Fair Memories - Page 1 of 3

"Dot, also thinks the betting has dropped. The attendance of the Fair has dropped because at the time when the Northern Maine Fair was in full swing…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 4 of 4

"… the Federal government is surely a better bet than the State, but it is no less beholden by its own sense of superiority and changing dictates…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Thomas S. Libby

"I bet Thomas S. Libby would like it more now than back then because it was different. They didn’t have all the good things we have now like cars…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Beef Cutlet always reminds me of home in Iran
by Parivash Rohani

Making beef cutlet in Maine connects me to my home in Iran and my Baha'i faith.

Story

A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down