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Historical Items

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Item 105813

Mourning dress for a young child, ca. 1830

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1830 Media: cotton

Item 105506

Grapevine embroided cape, Portland, ca. 1840

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1840 Location: Portland Media: wool, silk

Item 111680

Child's ocelot fur collar, Portland, ca.1952

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1952 Location: Portland Media: fur, silk, plastic

Online Exhibits

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Northern Threads: Silhouettes in Sequence, ca. 1780-1889

A themed exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads Part I," featuring a timeline of silhouettes from about 1775 through 1889.

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From French Canadians to Franco-Americans

French Canadians who emigrated to the Lewiston-Auburn area faced discrimination as children and adults -- such as living in "Little Canada" tenements and being ridiculed for speaking French -- but also adapted to their new lives and sustained many cultural traditions.

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We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.

Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.

Site Pages

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Historic Clothing Collection - Outerwear 1830-1860

"… cape trimmed with deep bands of cord knotting; a child's turquoise wool cape embroidered with a vine and trapunto-like grape border; and a heavy…"

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Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"It was said that the lines of clothing, hardware, shoes, and ship chandlery were the best east of Bangor. Lubec stores seemed primitive by comparison."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Annie Martin, Bangor, 1864

"… Description Annie Martin (1855-1889), the second child of John and Clara Martin of Bangor, is shown in four positions from ages 3 to 10 in an…"

My Maine Stories

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Aroostook Potato Harvest: Perspective of a Six Year Old
by Phyllis A. Blackstone

A child's memory of potato harvest in the 1950s

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Rug Hooking Project with a Story
by Marilyn Weymouth Seguin

My grandmother taught me the Maine craft of rug hooking when I was a child.

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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