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Historical Items

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Item 22142

View of Sanford from Mt. Hope, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative

Item 34291

Civil War Memorial, Bangor, ca. 1875

Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: circa 1875 Location: Bangor Media: Stereograph

Item 101066

Soldiers' Monument, Bangor, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Date: 1864 Location: Bangor Media: Ink on paper

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109805

Receiving Tomb for Mount Hope Cemetery, Lewiston, 1894

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1894 Location: Lewiston Client: unknown Architect: George M. Coombs

Item 109099

Eastside Elementary School, Bangor, 1952-1953

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1952–1953 Location: Bangor; Bangor Client: City of Bangor Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Online Exhibits

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Hiking, Art and Science: Portland's White Mountain Club

In 1873, a group of men, mostly from Portland, formed the second known hiking club in the U.S., the White Mountain Club of Portland, to carry out their scientific interests, their love of hiking and camaraderie, and their artistic interests in painting and drawing the features of several of the White Mountains.

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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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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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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Welcome and Introduction

"Photo by W.H. Ballard, circa 1940. X The history of Mount Desert Island, as seen through the lens of the Maine Memory Network, has been a work in…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - About Us

"… X Mount Desert Island Historical Society, Mount Desert, (207) 276-9323 The Mount Desert Island Historical Society keeps, discovers, and…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …next came the artists and rusticators.

"Hoping that the “cool waters of Eden” might invigorate body and soul, vacationers, referred to as rusticators, soon followed the artists."

My Maine Stories

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Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey

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