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Item 26477

Contributed by: Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library Date: 1895 Location: Caribou; Chicago Media: Photographic print

Item 35319

Swimmers in the water at Fortunes Rocks, Biddeford, 1908

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1908 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 1036

Socatean Falls, 1887

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1887-08-29 Media: Cabinet photograph

Online Exhibits

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Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man and a poet of New England conscience. He was influenced by his ancestry and his Portland boyhood home and experience.

Exhibit

Trustees' Office, Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, ca. 1915

In Time and Eternity: Shakers in the Industrial Age

"In Time and Eternity: Maine Shakers in the Industrial Age 1872-1918" is a series of images that depict in detail the Shakers in Maine during a little explored time period of expansion and change.

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Summer Folk: The Postcard View

Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."

Site Pages

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Temporary trestlework for bridge, Lubec, ca. 1961, 1961

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 2 of 3

"… Lubec shore at low tide, the water reflecting the calm before tide reversal. The left photo near high tide reveals the water just below the bottom…"

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Ocean View Hotel porch, Swan's Island, ca. 1900

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Ocean View Hotel

"It would be so calm and nice, you know. And even sometimes you could hear them coming from the Sheriff (the island), that’s out behind the lighthouse."

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Hallowell Steam and Boom Company, Hallowell, ca. 1895

Historic Hallowell - Sweat on the Kennebec ~ Hallowell Steam and Boom Company

"The river is calm and workers are dressed in pants and long sleeved shirts. Hallowell was the location of the great sorting boom for down-river mills."