Keywords: Rare
Item 23698
C.H. Randall with white deer, Greenville, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Greenville Media: Lantern slide
Item 102762
Toy Len Goon's mud silk tunic and pant suit, Guangdong, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Portland Media: Silk, mud, cotton, tan Dioscorea Cirrhosa dye
Item 65231
77 Newbury Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Raffaele Frascone Use: Dwelling - Single family
Exhibit
The Barns of the St. John River Valley: Maine's Crowning Jewels
Maine's St. John River Valley boasts a unique architectural landscape. A number of historical factors led to the proliferation of a local architectural style, the Madawaska twin barn, as well as a number of building techniques rarely seen elsewhere. Today, these are in danger of being lost to time.
Exhibit
Sarah Sampson: Caring for Soldiers, Orphans
Sarah Sampson of Bath went to war with her husband, a captain in the 3rd Maine Regiment. With no formal training, she spent the next four and a half years providing nursing and other services to soldiers. Even after her husband became ill and returned to Maine, Sampson remained in the Washington, D.C., area aiding the sick and wounded.
Site Page
Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Mildred Thomas and Harold Sawyer, ca. 1910
"… as most of his pictures were landscapes, and very rarely included people. Sawyer gave the photograph to the Thomas family where it hung on the wall…"
Site Page
Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Flora Brooks, Lying in Repose, 1922
""Rarely will one find a man or woman so devoted to a cause as was Mrs. Brooks to the Farmington Public Library."
Story
Langdon Burton and the Cold, Wet Tourists
by Phil Tedrick
A father and son have their vacation experience totally changed by an encounter with a fisherman
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
