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Item 16050

get real. get maine! potato bag, Caribou, ca. 1980

Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1940 Location: Caribou Media: Paper

Item 21397

James F. Baldwin on sale of Baldwin lands, 1812

Contributed by: Pierce Family Collection through Maine Historical Society Date: 1812 Location: Baldwin Media: Ink on paper

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Item 98802

Kiah Sewall letter to wife, New York, 1836

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1836 Location: New York; Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Tax Records

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Item 82395

Assessor's Record, Brackett property, N. Side Oak Avenie, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: James W. Brackett Style: Cottage Use: Cottage

Item 99080

Assessor's Record, 8-16 Fox Court, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Elias Thomas Use: Unidentified

Online Exhibits

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Amazing! Maine Stories

These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.

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Pulp pile, St. Croix Paper Co., Woodland, ca. 1910

Making Paper, Making Maine

Paper has shaped Maine's economy, molded individual and community identities, and impacted the environment throughout Maine. When Hugh Chisholm opened the Otis Falls Pulp Company in Jay in 1888, the mill was one of the most modern paper-making facilities in the country, and was connected to national and global markets. For the next century, Maine was an international leader in the manufacture of pulp and paper.

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Dress made by Martha Willey Riley, Cherryfield, ca. 1912

Fashionable Maine: early twentieth century clothing

Maine residents kept pace with the dramatic shift in women’s dress that occurred during the short number of years preceding and immediately following World War I. The long restrictive skirts, stiff collars, body molding corsets and formal behavior of earlier decades quickly faded away and the new straight, dropped waist easy-to-wear clothing gave mobility and freedom of movement in tune with the young independent women of the casual, post-war jazz age generation.

Site Pages

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Cottage baby with student nurse, Farmington, ca. 1947

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Lincoln, Maine - Methodist Church

"I hope I am able to get married there someday. My grandfather is part of the choir. The fact that this church is so old makes me want to spread the…"