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Keywords: home crafts

Historical Items

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Item 10156

Outdoor crafts lesson at Camp Runoia, 1951

Contributed by: Camp Runoia Date: 1951 Location: Belgrade Lakes Media: Photographic print

Item 104991

"No Place Like Home" sampler, Westport Island, ca. 1875

Contributed by: Dedee Greenleaf-Hodgdon through Westport Island History Committee Date: circa 1875 Location: Westport Island Media: Burlap, silk

Item 16964

Bailey home, Baileyville, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Alexander-Crawford Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Woodland Media: Photographic print

Tax Records

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Item 32066

88-90 Alba Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Frances J Getchell Style: Vernacular - Arts & Crafts Use: Bungalow

Item 32266

173-177 Ashmont Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Carrol B Skillin Style: Vernacular - Arts & Crafts Use: Dwelling - Single family

Item 37532

18 Conant Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Mary Sanborn Style: Vernacular - Arts & Crafts Use: Dwelling - Two family

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 111981

Waterford Library, Waterford, 1937

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1930–1937 Location: Waterford Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Summer Camps

Maine is home to dozens of summer-long youth camps and untold numbers of day camps that take advantage of water, woods, and fresh air. While the children, counselors, and other staff come to Maine in the summer, the camps live on throughout the year and throughout the lives of many of the campers.

Exhibit

MY ISLAND HOME: Verlie Colby Greenleaf of Westport Island

Verlie Greenleaf (1891-1992) bore witness to over a century of Westport Island's history. Many changes occurred during Verlie's 100-year life. Verlie Greenleaf donated photographs, personal notes, and sat for an interview in 1987, all part of the Westport Island History Committee's collection. Her words frame this exhibition, providing a first-person account of her life.

Exhibit

Gifts From Gluskabe: Maine Indian Artforms

According to legend, the Great Spirit created Gluskabe, who shaped the world of the Native People of Maine, and taught them how to use and respect the land and the resources around them. This exhibit celebrates the gifts of Gluskabe with Maine Indian art works from the early nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries.

Site Pages

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home

"… by the National Endowment for the Humanities, was crafted to digitize and provide free, full-text online access to three of Maine Historical…"

Site Page

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"These crafts still flourish on the island, and are sold at various outlets, most importantly and successfully at the highly popular Arts and Craft…"

Site Page

Early Maine Photography - Occupational

"The furnishings of homes and buildings were crafted by cabinetmakers such as John Stringer of Hallowell (who also made clothes pins) and Benjamin F."

My Maine Stories

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Story

Rug Hooking Project with a Story
by Marilyn Weymouth Seguin

My grandmother taught me the Maine craft of rug hooking when I was a child.

Story

My artwork help process memories of Vietnam
by Brian Barry

My Eagle drawing won first place in the Togus Arts and Crafts show, third in the Nationals.

Story

The Start of Brewing in Maine
by Alan Pugsley

Master brewer Alan Pugsley talked about the beginning of brewing in Maine