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Historical Items

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Item 8388

Thoreau Island, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Patten Lumbermen's Museum Date: circa 1930 Media: Photographic print

Item 104195

Ansel Smith's house, Chesuncook, 1912

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1912 Location: Chesuncook Media: Photographic print

Item 101123

Charles Powers farm, Schoodic, 1905

Contributed by: Norcross Heritage Trust Date: 1905 Location: TA R7 WELS Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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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.

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A Focus on Trees

Maine has some 17 million acres of forest land. But even on a smaller, more local scale, trees have been an important part of the landscape. In many communities, tree-lined commercial and residential streets are a dominant feature of photographs of the communities.

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Mary Mitchell Selmore, Pleasant Point, 1901

Holding up the Sky: Wabanaki people, culture, history, and art

Learn about Native diplomacy and obligation by exploring 13,000 years of Wabanaki residence in Maine through 17th century treaties, historic items, and contemporary artworks—from ash baskets to high fashion. Wabanaki voices contextualize present-day relevance and repercussions of 400 years of shared histories between Wabanakis and settlers to their region.

Site Pages

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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… the country...as soon as possible..." Henry David Thoreau, 1846 The District of Maine, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, became its own state as a…"