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Item 78679

WLU 85th anniversary play, Portland, 1974

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1974 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 78681

Eunice Nichols Frye, Portland, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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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.

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400 years of New Mainers

Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.

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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.

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans"

"… assistant at Maine Historical Society and a student in the University of Southern Maine's New England and American Studies graduate program."

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"For example the Federated Woman’s Club, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, the Maine Temperance Union, and the Christian Civic League were all…"