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Item 69933

The Marginal Way, Ogunquit, ca. 1938

Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1938 Location: Ogunquit Media: Linen texture postcard

Item 69888

The Marginal Way, Ogunquit, ca. 1938

Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1938 Location: Ogunquit Media: Linen texture postcard

Item 78959

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

Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: circa 1940 Location: Mount Desert Island Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Selections from the Collections

Maine Historical Society staff come across unique and unforgettable items in our collections every day. While it's difficult to choose favorites from a dynamic collection, this exhibit features memorable highlights as selected by members of the MHS staff.

Exhibit

Good Will-Hinckley: Building a Landscape

The landscape at the Good Will-Hinckley campus in Fairfield was designed to help educate and influence the orphans and other needy children at the school and home.

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Maine Streets: The Postcard View

Photographers from the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co. of Belfast traveled throughout the state, especially in small communities, taking images for postcards. Many of these images, taken in the first three decades of the twentieth century, capture Main Streets on the brink of modernity.

Site Pages

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Lubec, Maine - Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail

"The Appalachian Trail Conference’s chairman from 1931 until his death in 1952. Chronicler of North Lubec history and extensive writer on mountains…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 3 of 3

"The goal of the trail is to “help residents and visitors take an active interest in preserving the unique character of High Peaks communities and…"

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Portrait of Cornelia "Fly Rod" Crosby, 1894

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3

"Today that legacy lives on in a memorial trail, active guides association and a region still home to some of Maine’s finest fishing and hunting."