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Historical Items

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Item 148520

"Radiation" record, Brunswick, 1978

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1978 Location: Brunswick Media: Vinyl, ink on paper

Item 148521

"The Same Band" record, Brunswick, 1985

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1985 Location: Brunswick Media: Vinyl, ink on paper

Item 80514

Alvin Record, 1895

Contributed by: Maine's Paper & Heritage Museum Date: 1895 Location: Livermore Falls Media: Photographic print

Tax Records

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Item 65229

73-75 Newbury Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: David Finkelman Use: Apartments

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 111332

Portland Junior College, Portland, 1946

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1946 Location: Portland Client: Portland Junior College Architect: John Howard Stevens and John Calvin Stevens II Architects

Item 111984

Somerset County Court House, Skowhegan, 1873-1904

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1873–1904 Location: Skowhegan Client: Somerset County Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Item 116423

Pike Memorial Hall, Cornish, 1925

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1925 Location: Cornish Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Jay & Livermore Falls, Pioneers in Paper Making

Alvin Record and Hugh J. Chisholm were instrumental in building paper mills in Jay, Livermore, and Livermore Falls. The two industrialists helped make the towns prosperous.

Exhibit

Colonial Cartography: The Plymouth Company Maps

The Plymouth Company (1749-1816) managed one of the very early land grants in Maine along the Kennebec River. The maps from the Plymouth Company's collection of records constitute some of the earliest cartographic works of colonial America.

Exhibit

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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Site Page

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 5 of 5

"The rich records about the creation of the border preserved here provide readers with the historical resources to reconsider how and why the border…"

Site Page

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"… of the Barclay Collection includes financial records and receipts from 1796 to 1827. The Treaty of Ghent (1814), which brought the stalemate of the…"

Site Page

Music in Maine - Bluegrass Music

"Throughout the 1950s and 60s, Hawkes recorded some of the most highly regarded country, bluegrass, and rockabilly songs, including by artists Dick…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Charles "Chuck" Tsomides: devoted to family and local sports
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center

A life influenced by Greek ancestry, love of music and appreciation for local community sports

Story

The $ame Band
by Mike Laskey

Maine's punk rock band, 1977

Story

Bull Moose
by Chris Brown

The history of Bull Moose Music, one of Maine's favorite music stores