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Historical Items

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Item 30896

School children, Lubec, ca. 1934

Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1934 Location: Lubec Media: Photograph on card mount

Item 98686

John Lucas Towle, Dixfield, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Dixfield Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Dixfield Media: Photographic print

Item 103645

Father, mother, and son, ca. 1858

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1858 Location: Portland Media: Daguerreotype

Online Exhibits

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Eternal Images: Photographing Childhood

From the earliest days of photography doting parents from across Maine sought to capture images of their young children. The studio photographs often reflect the families' images of themselves and their status or desired status.

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From French Canadians to Franco-Americans

French Canadians who emigrated to the Lewiston-Auburn area faced discrimination as children and adults -- such as living in "Little Canada" tenements and being ridiculed for speaking French -- but also adapted to their new lives and sustained many cultural traditions.

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Summer Camps

Maine is home to dozens of summer-long youth camps and untold numbers of day camps that take advantage of water, woods, and fresh air. While the children, counselors, and other staff come to Maine in the summer, the camps live on throughout the year and throughout the lives of many of the campers.

Site Pages

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Lubec, Maine - The Gardner Lake Tragedy - Page 2 of 2

"It was so sad to hear about all the children dying. Miriam Kelly the only survivor living today (2009)."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin house floor plan, Bangor, 1864

"… as long as they live." Only two of the Martin children, Ada and John Jr. survived their parents."

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Lubec, Maine - The Gardner Lake Tragedy - Page 1 of 2

"Twelve Lubec school children drowned that day, June 19, 1936. A summer day, after school ended for the year, created for picnics and the usually…"

My Maine Stories

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The only letter to survive World War II
by Cyrene Slegona

Only one of many letters my father sent to his wife remained after he came home from World War II.

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Memories of a mission in Vietnam, January 11, 1970
by SGT. Ronald Santerre, 1st Calvary Division

Extracting villagers from the Viet Cong in Vietnam

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Story of the "little nun"
by Felicia Garant

My grandmother made a nun's outfit for me