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Historical Items

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Item 64265

Agnes Mantor, Farmington, ca. 1955

Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: circa 1955 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print

Item 33617

Wheelwright Building, Bangor, 1948

Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: 1948 Location: Bangor Media: Photograph, jpg

Item 22040

Carl E. Milliken, Island Falls, ca. 1913

Contributed by: Maine State Archives Date: circa 1913 Location: Augusta; Island Falls Media: Carte de visite

Online Exhibits

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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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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 Riot of Words: Ballads, Posters, Proclamations and Broadsides

Imagine a day 150 years ago. Looking down a side street, you see the buildings are covered with posters and signs.

Site Pages

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

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Mercy Hospital - McAuley Residence

"… transitioned out of the program, earned a college degree, and started her own business. She later expressed gratitude to “the original staff for…"

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Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 2 of 3

"Progress away from heavy full skirted formal silks to simpler styled cottons is traced in numerous late-eighteenth to early-nineteenth century…"

My Maine Stories

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Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis

The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.

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John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne

Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.

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My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne

Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima