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Historical Items

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Item 5488

Miss Maine contestants of 1926

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1926 Media: Glass Negative

Item 76580

"Miss Androscoggin" and the Androscoggin No. 2, ca. 1955

Contributed by: Town of Topsham Date: circa 1955 Location: Topsham Media: Photographic print

Item 111677

Miss Flobelle Fairbanks, Portland, 1926

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1926 Location: Portland Media: glass negative

Online Exhibits

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We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.

Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.

Exhibit

Designing Acadia

For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.

Exhibit

"Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans"

Concern about immigrants and their loyalty in the post World War I era led to programs to "Americanize" them -- an effort to help them learn English and otherwise adjust to life in the United States. Clara Soule ran one such program for the Portland Public Schools, hoping it would help the immigrants be accepted.

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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