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Historical Items

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Item 105344

Island Ledge Casino, Wells Beach, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1915 Location: Wells Media: postcard

Item 105345

View of the square from the casino, Wells Beach, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1915 Location: Wells Media: postcard

Item 102279

Placemat for Forbes Dining, Wells Beach, ca. 1960

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1960 Location: Wells Media: Ink on paper

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Tax Records

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Item 32804

Assessor's Record, 11 Abbott Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Hellen Wells Use: Shed

Item 86546

81-83 Winter Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Mary Wells Use: Dwelling

Item 31997

11 Abbott Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Hellen M. Wells Style: Vernacular Victorian Use: Dwelling - Single family

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 110263

Addition to the Wells Public Library, Wells, ca. 1992

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1992 Location: Wells Client: Town of Wells Architect: Wadsworth, Boston, Dimick, Mercer & Weatherill

Item 116362

Libby well-house, Portland, ca. 1885

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1885 Location: Portland Client: Charles F. Libby Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Item 111365

Randall/Jarashow residence floor plan, Wayne, 1989

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1989 Location: Wayne Clients: David Randall; Judy Jarashow Architect: Carol A. Wilson; Carol A. Wilson, Architect

Online Exhibits

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Commander George Henry Preble

George Henry Preble of Portland, nephew of Edward Preble who was known as the father of the U.S. Navy, temporarily lost his command during the Civil War when he was charged with failing to stop a Confederate ship from getting through the Union blockade at Mobile.

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Home Ties: Sebago During the Civil War

Letters to and from Sebago soldiers who served in the Civil War show concern on both sides about farms and other issues at home as well as concern from the home front about soldiers' well-being.

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Remembering Mellie Dunham: Snowshoe Maker and Fiddler

Alanson Mellen "Mellie" Dunham and his wife Emma "Gram" Dunham were well-known musicians throughout Maine and the nation in the early decades of the 20th century. Mellie Dunham also received fame as a snowshoe maker.

Site Pages

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Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 2 of 17

"Biddeford and Saco were well known for ice harvesting, granite cutting, and cotton textile manufacturing."

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Life on a Tidal River - Football Oracle Page 4

"… brief report of their last game of the season as well as a list of all the players on the team. View additional information about this item on the…"

My Maine Stories

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Rev James Wells Appointment as Chaplain for Maine in Civil War
by David Woodward

Certificate for Rev. Wells commissioned by Gov. Israel Washburn Jr. to serve in Maine 11th Regiment

Story

A Story in a Stick
by Jim Moulton

A story about dowsing for a well in Bowdoin

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Hand carrying water in Marshfield
by Dorothy Gardner

Ways of getting water in rural Maine. From fetching water from a stream to having a well.

Lesson Plans

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Lesson Plan

Longfellow Studies: Celebrity's Picture - Using Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Portraits to Observe Historic Changes

Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 Content Area: Social Studies, Visual & Performing Arts
"In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?" Englishman Sydney Smith's 1820 sneer irked Americans, especially writers such as Irving, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Maine's John Neal, until Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's resounding popularity successfully rebuffed the question. The Bowdoin educated Portland native became the America's first superstar poet, paradoxically loved especially in Britain, even memorialized at Westminster Abbey. He achieved international celebrity with about forty books or translations to his credit between 1830 and 1884, and, like superstars today, his public craved pictures of him. His publishers consequently commissioned Longfellow's portrait more often than his family, and he sat for dozens of original paintings, drawings, and photos during his lifetime, as well as sculptures. Engravers and lithographers printed replicas of the originals as book frontispiece, as illustrations for magazine or newspaper articles, and as post cards or "cabinet" cards handed out to admirers, often autographed. After the poet's death, illustrators continued commercial production of his image for new editions of his writings and coloring books or games such as "Authors," and sculptors commemorated him with busts in Longfellow Schools or full-length figures in town squares. On the simple basis of quantity, the number of reproductions of the Maine native's image arguably marks him as the country's best-known nineteenth century writer. TEACHERS can use this presentation to discuss these themes in art, history, English, or humanities classes, or to lead into the following LESSON PLANS. The plans aim for any 9-12 high school studio art class, but they can also be used in any humanities course, such as literature or history. They can be adapted readily for grades 3-8 as well by modifying instructional language, evaluation rubrics, and targeted Maine Learning Results and by selecting materials for appropriate age level.

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Longfellow Studies: Integration of Longfellow's Poetry into American Studies

Grade Level: 9-12 Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
We explored Longfellow's ability to express universality of human emotions/experiences while also looking at the patterns he articulated in history that are applicable well beyond his era. We attempted to link a number of Longfellow's poems with different eras in U.S. History and accompanying literature, so that the poems complemented the various units. With each poem, we want to explore the question: What is American identity?

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World War I Sacrifice and Protest

Grade Level: 9-12 Content Area: Social Studies
Learn about World War I using primary sources from Maine Memory Network and the Library of Congress.