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Item 16064

Top Fresh brand potato bag for Maine potatoes; Skokie Illinois, ca. 1965

Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1965 Location: Skokie Media: Paper

Item 105218

Maine General Hospital, Portland, ca. 1892

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1892 Location: Portland Media: photographic print

Item 112087

Pejepscot Company Records, Volume 4, 1627-1866

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1627–1866 Location: Brunswick Media: Ink on paper

Online Exhibits

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Girls playing basketball, Naples, ca. 1930

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.

Exhibit

Mary King Scrimgeour dress, Lewiston, ca. 1895

Dressing Up, Standing Out, Fitting In

Adorning oneself to look one's "best" has varied over time, gender, economic class, and by event. Adornments suggest one's sense of identity and one's intent to stand out or fit in.

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Jack Lawrence, Saco, on Bicycle, ca. 1900

A Craze for Cycling

Success at riding a bike mirrored success in life. Bicycling could bring families together. Bicycling was good for one's health. Bicycling was fun. Bicycles could go fast. Such were some of the arguments made to induce many thousands of people around Maine and the nation to take up the new pastime at the end of the nineteenth century.

Site Pages

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George B. Dorr, Mount Desert Island, ca. 1940

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Founding of Acadia National Park

"… growth as essential to them ever and anon as are fresh air and sunshine to the body."Mount Desert Island Historical Society The island's growing…"

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Local Fishermen at Pine Point, Scarborough, 1932

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 1 of 4

"… Museum Scarborough’s coastline, with its marsh, fresh water streams, saltwater rivers, beaches and rocky ledges, has been a site for fisheries…"

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… visited by the local fish merchant, who brought fresh seafood to the door, the baker with fresh bread and pastry, the shoe salesman with the latest…"