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Item 53997

Holy Ark dedication program, Portland, 1949

Holy Ark dedication program, Portland, 1949

Contributed by: Congregation Shaarey Tphiloh Date: 1949-03-20 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

Item 72360

Shaarey Tphiloh ark, Portland, ca. 1949

Shaarey Tphiloh ark, Portland, ca. 1949

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1949 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 33655

Winslow Homer and Frank Coolbroth, Prouts Neck, ca. 1900

Winslow Homer and Frank Coolbroth, Prouts Neck, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Scarborough Media: Slide, transparency

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Front Door, Yellow House, Gardiner, ca. 1985

Inside the Yellow House

Photographer Elijah Cobb's 1985 portfolio of the Laura E. Richards House, with text by Rosalind Cobb Wiggins and Laura E. Putnam.

Exhibit

Northport Hotel, ca. 1900

Summer Folk: The Postcard View

Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."

Exhibit

Carved eagle for Anshe Sfard synagogue Torah ark, Portland, ca. 1917

Anshe Sfard, Portland's Early Chassidic Congregation

Chassidic Jews who came to Portland from Eastern Europe formed a congregation in the late 19th century and, in 1917, built a synagogue -- Anshe Sfard -- on Cumberland Avenue in Portland. By the early 1960s, the congregation was largely gone. The building was demolished in 1983.

My Maine Stories

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Story

The Cup Code (working at OOB in the 1960s)

The Cup Code (working at OOB in the 1960s)
by Randy Randall

Teenagers cooking fried food in OOB and the code used identify the product and quantity.