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Historical Items

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Item 53719

Paymaster machine, Waterville, ca. 1960

Contributed by: Colby College Special Collections Date: circa 1960 Location: Waterville Media: Metal

Item 68634

Letter on deceased soldier's pay, Georgetown, 1863

Contributed by: John Micavich through Sebago Historical Society Date: 1863-03-04 Location: Sebago; Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 136000

The Paymaster General's Accounting Directives, 1815–1820

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1815–1820 Media: Ink on Paper

Online Exhibits

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Yarmouth: Leader in Soda Pulp

Yarmouth's "Third Falls" provided the perfect location for papermaking -- and, soon, for producing soda pulp for making paper. At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, Yarmouth was an international leader in soda pulp production.

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Home Ties: Sebago During the Civil War

Letters to and from Sebago soldiers who served in the Civil War show concern on both sides about farms and other issues at home as well as concern from the home front about soldiers' well-being.

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Port of Portland's Custom House and Collectors of Customs

The collector of Portland was the key to federal patronage in Maine, though other ports and towns had collectors. Through the 19th century, the revenue was the major source of Federal Government income. As in Colonial times, the person appointed to head the custom House in Casco Bay was almost always a leading community figure, or a well-connected political personage.

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 1 of 3

"… had been overseer of the Pepperell cloth room and paymaster of the Laconia division. When he died in 1899 he bequeathed $40,000 toward a free…"