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Item 102173

John Morton appointing William Curry as Physician & Surgeon, Pennsylvania, 1776

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1776-04-06 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 101277

James Wilson on troop readiness, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1775

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1775-05-09 Location: Carlisle; Lancaster Media: Ink on paper

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Item 104819

Pennsylvania delegation posing at the NFBPWC clambake, Peaks Island, 1925

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1925-07-15 Location: Portland; Chester Media: glass negative

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 110490

Planting plan and garden seat for Fortune Rock, Mount Desert, 1987

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1987 Location: Mount Desert Client: C. Graham Berwind Architect: Landscape Design Associates

Item 116302

Thackery house, Johnstown, PA, ca. 1905

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Johnstown Client: George E. Thackery Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Item 111534

Alexander Bower house and studio, Cape Elizabeth, 1922

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1922 Location: Cape Elizabeth Client: Alexander Bower Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Online Exhibits

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Rebecca Usher: 'To Succor the Suffering Soldiers'

Rebecca Usher of Hollis was 41 and single when she joined the Union nursing service at the U.S. General Hospital at Chester, Pennsylvania. Her time there and later at City Point, Virginia, were defining experiences of her life.

Exhibit

Dunlap Declaration of Independence, 1776

Unlocking the Declaration's Secrets

Fewer than 30 copies of the first printing of the Declaration of Independence are known to exist. John Dunlap hurriedly printed copies for distribution to assemblies, conventions, committees and military officers. Authenticating authenticity of the document requires examination of numerous details of the broadside.

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John Dunn, 19th Century Sportsman

John Warner Grigg Dunn was an accomplished amateur photographer, hunter, fisherman and lover of nature. On his trips to Ragged Lake and environs, he became an early innovator among amateur wildlife photographers. His photography left us with a unique record of the Moosehead Lake region in the late nineteenth century.

Site Pages

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 6 of 6

"… American Republic (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023). Lisa Brooks, The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the…"

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Eastern Steamship Company Wharf, Kennebec River, Hallowell, ca. 1890

Historic Hallowell - Seaport on the Kennebec

"… forty-six miles from the open Atlantic, bringing Pennsylvania flour, West India sugar, and English cloth and hardware, returning with shingles…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading

"Philadelphia: Press of the University of Pennsylvania, 1924. Allen, Charles Edwin. History of Dresden, Maine: Formerly a Part of the Old Town of…"