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Historical Items

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Item 104543

R-4 spray room at Pepperell Mills, Biddeford, 2009

Contributed by: Biddeford Mills Museum Date: circa 1998 Location: Biddeford Media: Digital Image

Item 104644

Range #4 flock room at Pepperell Mills, Biddeford, 2009

Contributed by: Biddeford Mills Museum Date: 1999 Location: Biddeford Media: Digital Image

Item 81862

Postcard processing room, Oxford Paper Company, Rumford, 1903

Contributed by: Greater Rumford Area Historical Society Date: 1903 Location: Rumford Media: Photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 110756

B&M store house and canning factory, Portland, 1918-1944

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1918–1944 Location: Portland; Farmington; Livermore Falls Client: Burnham and Morrill Co. Architect: John Calvin Stevens John Howard Stevens Architects

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

The Nativist Klan

In Maine, like many other states, a newly formed Ku Klux Klan organization began recruiting members in the years just before the United States entered World War I. A message of patriotism and cautions about immigrants and non-Protestants drew many thousands of members into the secret organization in the early 1920s. By the end of the decade, the group was largely gone from Maine.

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Working Women of the Old Port

Women at the turn of the 20th century were increasingly involved in paid work outside the home. For wage-earning women in the Old Port section of Portland, the jobs ranged from canning fish and vegetables to setting type. A study done in 1907 found many women did not earn living wages.

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The Trolley Parks of Maine

At the heyday of trolleys in Maine, many of the trolley companies developed recreational facilities along or at the end of trolley lines as one further way to encourage ridership. The parks often had walking paths, dance pavilions, and various other entertainments. Cutting-edge technology came together with a thirst for adventure and forever changed social dynamics in the process.

Site Pages

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - The Tea Room

"… her hip beyond repair and lived in the corner room on the first floor which is now part of the seating area in the Tea Room."

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Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4

"1975Lubec Historical Society Preparing smoked herring was a traditional process, that is, one that changed little in its essentials through the…"

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Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 4 of 4

"Also left behind was example of an “improved” item, a wheeled cart. For although the process remained traditional, and so did key tools and…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

My Story of Trauma
by Anonymous (Maine Correction Center)

The process of being incarcerated is traumatic. This is my story.

Story

Apple Time - a visit to the ancestral farm
by Randy Randall

Memories from childhood of visiting the family homestead in Limington during apple picking time.

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My Journey: Training Service Dogs in Prison
by Anonymous (Maine State Prison)

Inmates at Maine State Prison train dogs as service and companion animals. This is one story.