Keywords: Board of Overseers of Bowdoin College
Item 34549
Isacc Lincoln, Brunswick, ca. 1860
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1860 Location: Topsham; Brunswick Media: Photographic print
Item 34552
Isaac Lincoln, Brunswick, ca. 1840
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1840 Location: Topsham; Brunswick Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Port of Portland's Custom House and Collectors of Customs
The collector of Portland was the key to federal patronage in Maine, though other ports and towns had collectors. Through the 19th century, the revenue was the major source of Federal Government income. As in Colonial times, the person appointed to head the custom House in Casco Bay was almost always a leading community figure, or a well-connected political personage.
Exhibit
Begin Again: reckoning with intolerance in Maine
BEGIN AGAIN explores Maine's historic role, going back 528 years, in crisis that brought about the pandemic, social and economic inequities, and the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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