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Historical Items

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Item 5502

Suffrage Referendum League of Maine calendar, 1917

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1917 Media: Ink on paper

Item 5468

Men's Equal Suffrage League of Maine brochure, ca. 1917

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1917 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 4233

League of American Wheelmen, Belfast, 1891

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1891-05-30 Location: Belfast Media: Photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 116383

Cummings house, Biddeford, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Biddeford Client: A. L. T. Cummings Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Item 111807

Edith Barry china closet, Kennebunk, 1950

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1950 Location: Kennebunk Client: Edith Barry Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Online Exhibits

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400 years of New Mainers

Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.

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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.

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A Craze for Cycling

Success at riding a bike mirrored success in life. Bicycling could bring families together. Bicycling was good for one's health. Bicycling was fun. Bicycles could go fast. Such were some of the arguments made to induce many thousands of people around Maine and the nation to take up the new pastime at the end of the nineteenth century.

Site Pages

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Introduction

"… Hamlin, world renowned author Stephen King, Major League baseball player Mike Bordick, and NASCAR driver Ricky Craven have in common? The fact is…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford High School Basketball - 1970s - Page 1 of 2

"The School League at the Institute had teams like St. Athanasius, coached by Rivard, St. Johns, coached by Taylor, and Chisholm School, coached by…"

My Maine Stories

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Dr. Norman Beaupré: Preserving his Franco-American culture
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center

Journey growing up as a Franco-American in Biddeford to his career as a professor and author.