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Historical Items

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Item 1440

Reservoir break, Portland, 1893

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1893 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 74835

Break-strain insulator, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1915 Media: Wood, iron

Item 17501

Study break, Fryeburg Academy, ca. 1906

Contributed by: Fryeburg Academy Archives Date: circa 1906 Location: Fryeburg Media: Photographic print from glass negative

Online Exhibits

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Luxurious Leisure

From the last decades of the nineteenth century through about the 1920s, vacationers were attracted to large resort hotels that promised a break from the noise, crowds, and pressures of an ever-urbanizing country.

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A Handwritten Community Newspaper

The eight issues of South Freeport's handwritten newspaper, distributed in 1859, provided "general interest and amusement" to the coastal community.

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Cape Elizabeth Shipwrecks

The rocky coastline of Cape Elizabeth has sent many vessels to their watery graves.

Site Pages

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 10 of 13

"Harvesting Potatoes IT'S NOT ALL WORK Break Time Image is from USDA 1976 Yearbook of Agroculture THE FACE OF RURAL AMERICA X Frequently, the…"

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Historic Hallowell - Day 3 - Page 1 of 2

"Repairing power lines, fixing the poles, and toughing out the cold. They worked their hardest without a break."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - National Blue Ribbon School

"National Blue Ribbon School Breaking ground for renovation, Strong Public School, ca. 1996 Conducting the ceremonial ground breaking at the…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Amato's Italian Sandwiches
by Charles V. Stanhope

Amato's Italian Sandwiches

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Memories of a mission in Vietnam, January 11, 1970
by SGT. Ronald Santerre, 1st Calvary Division

Extracting villagers from the Viet Cong in Vietnam

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Catching live bait with Grandfather
by Randy Randall

We never bought live bait for fishing. Grandfather caught all the minnows and shiners we needed.