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Item 100311

K.B. Sewall to daughter on names, education, Mobile, 1856

K.B. Sewall to daughter on names, education, Mobile, 1856

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1856-02-10 Location: Portland; Mobile Media: Ink on paper

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Item 6242

Pere Pole deposition, Hallowell, 1793

Pere Pole deposition, Hallowell, 1793

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1793-07-19 Location: Hallowell Media: Ink on paper

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Item 105922

Say Their Names sign, Brunswick, 2020

Say Their Names sign, Brunswick, 2020

Courtesy of Tilly Laskey, an individual partner Date: 2020-06-04 Location: Brunswick Media: Digital image

Tax Records

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Item 32344

55 Alder Street, Portland, 1924

55 Alder Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Zafiris Vamvakias et als Style: Utilitarian Use: Mill - Cabinet Works

Item 36816

88-90 Chestnut Street, Portland, 1924

88-90 Chestnut Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Babaros Gulasorian Use: Dwelling & Store

Item 48436

358 Dedham Street, Portland, 1924

358 Dedham Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Bertha M Burns Use: Dwelling - Single family

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 110421

Titus-Fagan residence, Woodstock, NY, 1996

Titus-Fagan residence, Woodstock, NY, 1996

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1996 Location: Woodstock Client: Libby Titus-Fagan Architect: Landscape Design Associates

Item 111598

David A. Calhoun house, Cape Elizabeth, 1904

David A. Calhoun house, Cape Elizabeth, 1904

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1904 Location: Cape Elizabeth Client: David A. Calhoun Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Item 109109

Penobscot Shoe Company building, Old Town, 1952-1954

Penobscot Shoe Company building, Old Town, 1952-1954

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1952–1954 Location: Old Town Client: Penobscot Shoe Company Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Thomas Brackett Reed lapel pin, ca. 1895

Maine Politicians, National Leaders

From the early days of Maine statehood to the present, countless Maine politicians have made names for themselves on the national stage.

Exhibit

Nameplate from the S.S. Lillian Nordica, 1944

South Portland's Wartime Shipbuilding

Two shipyards in South Portland, built quickly in 1941 to construct cargo ships for the British and Americans, produced nearly 270 ships in two and a half years. Many of those vessels bore the names of notable Mainers.

Exhibit

Rebecca Clarke (Sophie May), ca. 1880

Student Exhibit: Rebecca Sophie Clarke

Sophie May, whose real name was Rebecca Clarke, was the author of over 40 books between 1861 and 1903. She wrote the "Little Prudy Series" based on the little town of Norridgewock.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Rendering for Irving C. Bailey Esq., Winthrop, 1883

Architecture & Landscape database - Database Collections

"Collection names are styled after the firm's proper name, or as they appear in the contributing repository's catalogue."

Site Page

Maternity, Hallowell Granite Works, ca. 1895

Historic Hallowell - Martha Ballard's Modern Connection

"His name is Spencer Buck. He was interviewed by fellow classmate _____________ about his famous relative. Click here to listen to the conversation."

Site Page

Friendship vessel, Blue Hill, 1907

Blue Hill, Maine - Friendship vessel, Blue Hill, 1907

"… Library Description A sailing vessel named Friendship in Blue Hill. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Ted Truman (Throumoulos): A treasure trove of stories

Ted Truman (Throumoulos): A treasure trove of stories
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center

A son of Greek immigrants’ insight into his entrepreneurial family, culture and life experiences

Story

Elizabeth Mantis Spiliopoulos: passion for life & Greek heritage

Elizabeth Mantis Spiliopoulos: passion for life & Greek heritage
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center

A spunky 99-year-old shares her crystal-clear recollections of all the changes in her lifetime

Story

Nicole Morin-Scribner: living the dreams of her immigrant parent

Nicole Morin-Scribner: living the dreams of her immigrant parent
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center

A 6-year-old immigrant makes the most of her opportunities while staying connected to her roots

Lesson Plans

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Lesson Plan

Greetings from the Pine Tree State, ca. 1938

Bicentennial Lesson Plan

Why is Maine the Pine Tree State?

Grade Level: K-2 Content Area: Social Studies
This lesson plan will give students in early elementary grades a foundation for identifying the recognizable animals and natural resources of Maine. In this lesson, students will learn about and identify animals and plants significant to the state, and will identify what types of environments are best suited to different types of plant and animal life. Students will have the opportunity to put their own community wildlife into a large-scale perspective.

Lesson Plan

Road in birch forest, ca. 1935

Bicentennial Lesson Plan

Wabanaki Studies: Stewarding Natural Resources

Grade Level: 3-5 Content Area: Science & Engineering, Social Studies
This lesson plan will introduce elementary-grade students to the concepts and importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Indigenous Knowledge (IK), taught and understood through oral history to generations of Wabanaki people. Students will engage in discussions about how humans can be stewards of the local ecosystem, and how non-Native Maine citizens can listen to, learn from, and amplify the voices of Wabanaki neighbors to assist in the future of a sustainable environment. Students will learn about Wabanaki artists, teachers, and leaders from the past and present to help contextualize the concepts and ideas in this lesson, and learn about how Wabanaki youth are carrying tradition forward into the future.

Lesson Plan

View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, MA, after a Thunderstorm (The Oxbow)

Longfellow Studies: The American Wilderness? How 19th Century American Artists Viewed the Separation Of Civilization and Nature

Grade Level: 9-12 Content Area: Social Studies, Visual & Performing Arts
When European settlers began coming to the wilderness of North America, they did not have a vision that included changing their lifestyle. The plan was to set up self-contained communities where their version of European life could be lived. In the introduction to The Crucible, Arthur Miller even goes as far as saying that the Puritans believed the American forest to be the last stronghold of Satan on this Earth. When Roger Chillingworth shows up in The Scarlet Letter's second chapter, he is welcomed away from life with "the heathen folk" and into "a land where iniquity is searched out, and punished in the sight of rulers and people." In fact, as history's proven, they believed that the continent could be changed to accommodate their interests. Whether their plans were enacted in the name of God, the King, or commerce and economics, the changes always included – and still do to this day - the taming of the geographic, human, and animal environments that were here beforehand. It seems that this has always been an issue that polarizes people. Some believe that the landscape should be left intact as much as possible while others believe that the world will inevitably move on in the name of progress for the benefit of mankind. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby – a book which many feel is one of the best portrayals of our American reality - the narrator, Nick Carraway, looks upon this progress with cynicism when he ends his narrative by pondering the transformation of "the fresh green breast of a new world" that the initial settlers found on the shores of the continent into a modern society that unsettlingly reminds him of something out of a "night scene by El Greco." Philosophically, the notions of progress, civilization, and scientific advancement are not only entirely subjective, but also rest upon the belief that things are not acceptable as they are. Europeans came here hoping for a better life, and it doesn't seem like we've stopped looking. Again, to quote Fitzgerald, it's the elusive green light and the "orgiastic future" that we've always hoped to find. Our problem has always been our stoic belief system. We cannot seem to find peace in the world either as we've found it or as someone else may have envisioned it. As an example, in Miller's The Crucible, his Judge Danforth says that: "You're either for this court or against this court." He will not allow for alternative perspectives. George W. Bush, in 2002, said that: "You're either for us or against us. There is no middle ground in the war on terror." The frontier -- be it a wilderness of physical, religious, or political nature -- has always frightened Americans. As it's portrayed in the following bits of literature and artwork, the frontier is a doomed place waiting for white, cultured, Europeans to "fix" it. Anything outside of their society is not just different, but unacceptable. The lesson plan included will introduce a few examples of 19th century portrayal of the American forest as a wilderness that people feel needs to be hesitantly looked upon. Fortunately, though, the forest seems to turn no one away. Nature likes all of its creatures, whether or not the favor is returned. While I am not providing actual activities and daily plans, the following information can serve as a rather detailed explanation of things which can combine in any fashion you'd like as a group of lessons.