Keywords: Literary figures
Item 27979
Jacob Abbott and Fewacres, Farmington, 1903
Contributed by: Farmington Public Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Farmington Media: Engraving, ink on paper
Item 20581
Charlotte Julia Thomas, Portland, 1910
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1910 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
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Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man and a poet of New England conscience. He was influenced by his ancestry and his Portland boyhood home and experience.
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Fashionable Maine: early twentieth century clothing
Maine residents kept pace with the dramatic shift in women’s dress that occurred during the short number of years preceding and immediately following World War I. The long restrictive skirts, stiff collars, body molding corsets and formal behavior of earlier decades quickly faded away and the new straight, dropped waist easy-to-wear clothing gave mobility and freedom of movement in tune with the young independent women of the casual, post-war jazz age generation.
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Skowhegan Community History - Bloomfield Academy
"In 1815 there was a proposal made to the Maine Literary and Theological Institution offering Bloomfield, now Skowhegan, as the site of a new college…"
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter
"… gladly rec’d and read, also a copy of Gleason’s Literary Companion for which I feel grateful and would be thankful for one as often as you can send…"
