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Historical Items

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Item 105819

Beverly Conant's Girl Scout uniform, Farmington, ca. 1945

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1945 Location: Farmington Media: cotton, brass, metal, plastic

Item 81001

Boy Scout Band, Princeton, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Princeton Public Library Date: circa 1910 Location: Princeton Media: Photographic print

Item 74464

Wiscasset Boy Scout circus, 1970

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1970 Location: Wiscasset Media: Photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109965

Kennebec Girl Scout Council Adams Lake property, 1971

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1971 Client: Girl Scouts of America Architect: Holmes A. Stockly; Stockly & Leahy Assoc.

Item 111883

B.S.A. cottage, Chebeague Island, 1936

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1936 Location: Chebeague Island Client: Council B.S.A. Architect: John Calvin Stevens II

Item 109964

Camp building at Pondicherry, Bridgton, 1972

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1972 Location: Bridgton Client: Girl Scouts of America Architect: Raymond S. Leahy; Stockly & Leahy Assoc.

Online Exhibits

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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.

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Umbazooksus & Beyond

Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.

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Indians at the Centennial

Passamaquoddy Indians from Washington County traveled to Portland in 1920 to take part in the Maine Centennial Exposition. They set up an "Indian Village" at Deering Oaks Park.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Presque Isle: The Star City - Adventures in Aroostook County - Page 1 of 3

"Growing up on a farm he had his own pony named Scout that he broke himself. He would chase his siblings around the pastures."

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Pittsfield Historical Society

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

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Lincoln, Maine - Jacob Stinchfield

"Stinchfield moved to Michigan to scout out and cut down the timber there, which he did until his death in 1873."

My Maine Stories

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Story

How Mom caught Dad
by Jane E. Woodman

How Ruth and Piney met in Wilton and started a life together

Story

Quinton "Skip" Wilson: different aspects of "standing out"
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center

Recollections of life as Biddeford's only student of color during the 1960-70s

Story

My 41 year career in Maine paper mills
by Mike Luciano

Generations of paper workers, families, immigrants, jobs in the mill, labor strikes, and changes