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Historical Items

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Item 23970

Commencement Issue of The Olympian, Biddeford High School, 1926

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1926 Location: Biddeford Media: Paper-bound yearbook/magazine

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Item 23254

E.S.N.S. 'Echo' staff, Castine, 1900

Contributed by: Wilson Museum Date: 1900 Location: Castine Media: Photographic print

Item 25020

Dr. Rockwell's Mustard Plaster, February 1929

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1929 Media: Ink on paper

Online Exhibits

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Writing Women

Published women authors with ties to Maine are too numerous to count. They have made their marks in all types of literature.

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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.

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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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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Four sons of Jacob Abbott, Farmington, ca. 1865

"… Austin, and was for several years editor of the "Literary Record" and "Harper's Magazine." He was a featured speaker at the dedication of the…"

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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My Maine Stories

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In an Old, Abandoned Island House, I Found my Mentor and my Muse
by Robin Clifford Wood

An aspiring writer finds inspiration and a mentor from the past in an old island home.