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Item 6058

Gravel road by the Ossipee River in Cornish, 1937

Contributed by: Maine State Archives Date: 1937 Location: Cornish Media: Silver Print Photograph

Item 82391

Civilian Conservation Corps gravel pit at Mt. Bigelow, Flagstaff, ca. 1935

Contributed by: Maine Conservation Corps Date: circa 1935 Location: Flagstaff Media: Photographic print

Item 9445

Horse-drawn school teams, Caribou, ca. 1928

Contributed by: Caribou Public Library Date: circa 1928 Location: Caribou Media: Postcard

Online Exhibits

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Writing on the board, North School, Portland, ca. 1915

Back to School

Public education has been a part of Maine since Euro-American settlement began to stabilize in the early eighteenth century. But not until the end of the nineteenth century was public education really compulsory in Maine.

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"Chops and Tomato Sauce" as prepared for Samuel Pickwick, ca. 1890

Sugar and Spice: Our Vintage Recipes

Sugar and Spice: Our Vintage Recipes showcases historic recipes, dating from the 18th century to the 1950s, like sweet treats, traditional favorites, promotional printings, medicinal concoctions, curious libations, and recipes that have fallen out of favor.

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Umbazooksus & Beyond

Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.

Site Pages

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Maternity, Hallowell Granite Works, ca. 1895

Historic Hallowell - Timeline of Cyclone

"Timbers, bricks, gravel, and tarred paper began to ﬂy around his head as Brown ran to the other end of the mill."

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Lt. John R. Andrews, Biddeford, ca. 1861

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 3 of 3

"… them for use, and in removing loom from the gravel pit and spreading it upon the waste land near by, and such other work as we could procure for…"

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Guilford Woolen Mill Finishing Room Crew, ca, 1890

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"… through the windows, carrying tons of coal and gravel, packing the boiler room and dye house to a depth of three feet, and destroying dye tubs and…"