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Historical Items

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Item 5266

Dr. Faster and family, August 10, 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1920-08-10 Media: Glass Negative

Item 5773

108 mm shell casing manufacture at the Portland Company, ca. 1917

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1917 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 12947

Aspinwal Potato Cutter, Jackson, Michigan, ca. 1895

Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1895 Location: Jackson; Littleton Media: Iron

Online Exhibits

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Trolley Travel

Trolleys were the cleanest and most efficient means of mass transit Maine has ever known.

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Yarmouth: Leader in Soda Pulp

Yarmouth's "Third Falls" provided the perfect location for papermaking -- and, soon, for producing soda pulp for making paper. At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, Yarmouth was an international leader in soda pulp production.

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Prohibition in Maine in the 1920s

Federal Prohibition took hold of America in 1920 with the passing of the Volstead Act that banned the sale and consumption of all alcohol in the US. However, Maine had the Temperance movement long before anyone was prohibited from taking part in one of America's most popular past times. Starting in 1851, the struggles between the "drys" and the "wets" of Maine lasted for 82 years, a period of time that was everything but dry and rife with nothing but illegal activity.

Site Pages

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Historic Hallowell - The Tiger and the Lion

"… sat on the hose as they went to the fire, a faster way for everyone to get there. The Tiger #4 is one of the many hand tubs that Hallowell owned…"

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

"… changed about harness racing is racers need to go faster to even qualify to race. Dot, also thinks the betting has dropped."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 12 of 13

"… onto the barrel from the truck body, allowing for faster loading of the truck. Like most tools on smaller family farms, barrel grapples were made…"

My Maine Stories

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Warming Oceans
by David Reidmiller, Gulf of Maine Research Institute

The rate of warming in the Gulf of Maine is faster than that of more than 95% of the world’s oceans

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Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey

MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR