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Historical Items

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Item 6523

Popham Beach, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Popham Beach Media: Photoprint

Item 52079

Smoke cloud, Saco, 1953

Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: 1953-03-12 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print

Item 51279

St. Cloud Hotel, Old Orchard, ca. 1879

Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: circa 1879 Location: Old Orchard Beach Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Auto Racing in Maine: 1911

The novelty of organized auto racing came to Maine in 1911 with a hill-climbing event in Poland and speed racing at Old Orchard Beach. Drivers and cars came from all over New England for these events.

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Bookplates Honor Annie Louise Cary

A summer resident of Wayne collected more than 3,000 bookplates to honor Maine native and noted opera singer Annie Louise Cary and to support the Cary Memorial Library.

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Umbazooksus & Beyond

Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.

Site Pages

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 3 of 3

"… to pick flowers in a local field, and watch the clouds go by. Growing up, my mother didn’t have a TV or toys."

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1850-1870 - Page 4 of 4

"… skirt would not be out of place among the cloud of white dresses in Claude Monet’s 1866-67 painting titled Women in the Garden."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - First balloon ascension, Bangor, 1857

"… day. I had read and heard of men going above the clouds, I now had the reality before me and I made a vow that from that day out I would never…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

We Gonna Be Alright and Say It Loud
by Ryan Adams

Creating artwork during a period of social and cultural awakening

Story

Langdon Burton and the Cold, Wet Tourists
by Phil Tedrick

A father and son have their vacation experience totally changed by an encounter with a fisherman

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Wabanaki-Greenland connections
by Jennifer Sapiel Neptune

Exploring cultural resiliency in this time of rapidly changing climate.