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Historical Items

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Item 28375

George W. Pierce on opening law office, Portland, 1829

Contributed by: Pierce Family Collection through Maine Historical Society Date: 1829 Location: Portland; Baldwin Media: Ink on paper

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Item 10846

Inventory of lumber, Gilbertville Steam Lumber Mill, 1906

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1906-09-20 Location: Gilbertville; Rumford Falls Media: Ink on paper

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Item 35712

W.H. Hobbs letter on business college, Bangor, 1866

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1866 Location: Bangor Media: Ink on paper

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Tax Records

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Item 92602

Strout property, Whitehead W. side, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Maud I. Strout Use: Summer Dwelling

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Item 87192

Pettengill property, Church Street, Cliff Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Rose I. Pettengill Use: Dwelling

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109220

Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd I. Collett camp, Eddington, 1947

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1947 Location: Eddington Client: Llyod I. Collett Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

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Lorenzo De Medici Sweat Memorial, Portland, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1909–1965 Location: Portland; Portland Client: Portland Society of Art Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Online Exhibits

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Horace W. Shaylor: Portland Penman

Horace W. Shaylor, a native of Ohio, settled in Portland and turned his focus to handwriting, developing several unique books of handwriting instruction. He also was a talented artist.

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George W. Hinckley and Needy Boys and Girls

George W. Hinckley wanted to help needy boys. The farm, school and home he ran for nearly sixty nears near Fairfield stressed home, religion, education, discipline, industry, and recreation.

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Taber Wagon

The Taber farm wagon was an innovative design that was popular on New England farms. It made lifting potato barrels onto a wagon easier and made more efficient use of the horse's work. These images glimpse the life work of its inventor, Silas W. Taber of Houlton, and the place of his invention in the farming community

Site Pages

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Lincoln, Maine - W.A. Brown: Jack of all trades

"1920Lincoln Historical Society W.A. Brown was a car dealer; he was a dealer for Ford. This impacts my life in a large way because he started the…"

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Early Maine Photography - Human Interest

"I am to start for California next Friday and may never return. C.H.B." In the case of nineteen year old Henry I."

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Early Maine Photography - War

"… left his family farm in Plymouth to join Company I of the Ninth Maine Regiment. Private Davis served from September, 1861 to September, 1864."

My Maine Stories

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Story

Mark Plummer, golfer from Maine
by Mark Plummer

Amateur golfer from Maine, Mark Plummer discussed his golf career and life lessons

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USCG Boot Camp Experience, Vietnam War era
by Peter S. Morgan, Jr.

"Letters to the Wall" Memorial Day

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Welcome home Sgt. Cunningham
by Donald C Cunningham

It was great to be back in Maine.

Lesson Plans

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Longfellow Studies: The American Wilderness? How 19th Century American Artists Viewed the Separation Of Civilization and Nature

Grade Level: 9-12 Content Area: Social Studies, Visual & Performing Arts
When European settlers began coming to the wilderness of North America, they did not have a vision that included changing their lifestyle. The plan was to set up self-contained communities where their version of European life could be lived. In the introduction to The Crucible, Arthur Miller even goes as far as saying that the Puritans believed the American forest to be the last stronghold of Satan on this Earth. When Roger Chillingworth shows up in The Scarlet Letter's second chapter, he is welcomed away from life with "the heathen folk" and into "a land where iniquity is searched out, and punished in the sight of rulers and people." In fact, as history's proven, they believed that the continent could be changed to accommodate their interests. Whether their plans were enacted in the name of God, the King, or commerce and economics, the changes always included – and still do to this day - the taming of the geographic, human, and animal environments that were here beforehand. It seems that this has always been an issue that polarizes people. Some believe that the landscape should be left intact as much as possible while others believe that the world will inevitably move on in the name of progress for the benefit of mankind. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby – a book which many feel is one of the best portrayals of our American reality - the narrator, Nick Carraway, looks upon this progress with cynicism when he ends his narrative by pondering the transformation of "the fresh green breast of a new world" that the initial settlers found on the shores of the continent into a modern society that unsettlingly reminds him of something out of a "night scene by El Greco." Philosophically, the notions of progress, civilization, and scientific advancement are not only entirely subjective, but also rest upon the belief that things are not acceptable as they are. Europeans came here hoping for a better life, and it doesn't seem like we've stopped looking. Again, to quote Fitzgerald, it's the elusive green light and the "orgiastic future" that we've always hoped to find. Our problem has always been our stoic belief system. We cannot seem to find peace in the world either as we've found it or as someone else may have envisioned it. As an example, in Miller's The Crucible, his Judge Danforth says that: "You're either for this court or against this court." He will not allow for alternative perspectives. George W. Bush, in 2002, said that: "You're either for us or against us. There is no middle ground in the war on terror." The frontier -- be it a wilderness of physical, religious, or political nature -- has always frightened Americans. As it's portrayed in the following bits of literature and artwork, the frontier is a doomed place waiting for white, cultured, Europeans to "fix" it. Anything outside of their society is not just different, but unacceptable. The lesson plan included will introduce a few examples of 19th century portrayal of the American forest as a wilderness that people feel needs to be hesitantly looked upon. Fortunately, though, the forest seems to turn no one away. Nature likes all of its creatures, whether or not the favor is returned. While I am not providing actual activities and daily plans, the following information can serve as a rather detailed explanation of things which can combine in any fashion you'd like as a group of lessons.