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Item 80287

Letter to Sarah Tarbox from a former boarding school classmate, 1839

Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: 1839-05-22 Location: Westport; Boston; Topsham Media: Ink on paper

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Item 17903

Beauty shop, Dow Field, Bangor, 1945

Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: 1945-04-18 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print

Item 79530

A family letter to Sarah Tarbox, 1838

Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: 1838-08-05 Location: Westport Island; Topsham Media: Ink on paper

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Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Capt. MacMillan's departure, Wiscasset, 1925

Wiscasset's Arctic Connection

Scientist, author and explorer Donald B. MacMillan established Wiscasset as his homeport for many of the voyages he made to the Arctic region starting in the early 1920s.

Exhibit

Students on porch, Farmington State Normal School, ca. 1928

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.

Exhibit

Maine Medical Center, Bramhall Campus

Maine Medical Center, founded as Maine General Hospital, has dominated Portland’s West End since its construction in 1871 on Bramhall Hill. As the medical field grew in both technological and social practice, the facility of the hospital also changed. This exhibit tracks the expansion and additions to that original building as the hospital adapted to its patients’ needs.

Site Pages

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Dyar rural school building, Strong, ca. 1910

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools

"Mrs. Arlene Potter said she received 50¢ a week for doing the janitorial work in 1926. The regular salary was $10 to $15 a week."

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Village School student body, Strong, ca. 1895

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Village Schools

"Emma M. Randall and her daughter, the late Mrs. Ella M Thomas, intended for the erection of a memorial gymnasium."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn

"That field was later known as Pratt's Field and was used by the High School for games and practice since the High School was on the lot adjacent to…"