Keywords: Early documents
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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Influential & Interesting Documents
"Influential & Interesting Documents Back to: 1620 to 1820: New England's Great Secret X The Drunkard's Looking Glass, ca."
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"Others used photography to document their work and expose it to a wider audience. Individuals and families used the photographic medium to copy a…"
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Early Maine Photography - Early Maine Photography at Maine Historical Society
"… the organizational structure of these collections documents the varied methods of collecting throughout MHS’ institutional history."
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Early Maine Photography - MHS Early Maine Photography Collections
"… always proceed thoughtfully, as to both honor and document years of institutional work. Between 2016 and 2018, through support from the Institute…"
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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 2
"More site specific are five images that document downtown commercial buildings: the Webber and Porter Building on Main Street in Searsport, the…"
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"… Kennebec Proprietors, and so generated extensive documentation within its papers. Meanwhile, Martha gave birth to and mothered nine children…"
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"… Wabanaki people who remained to interpret early documents and the placenames they contained. One striking example is the testimony of Pial Pôl."
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"… seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century legal documents over the lived experiences which had actually shaped life in the borderlands."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background
"26) each document the emergence of Maine as a unique and independent entity, distinct from British colonial rule, Massachusetts, the Canadian…"
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"Such conflicts form a key context for the documents that visitors and researchers will encounter in the Beyond Borders portal."
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"Combined, these collections document a series of dreams—dreams of power, profit, and advancement, of imperial glory and patriotic achievement, of…"
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"… Society’s Thomas Barclay Collection that contains documents, land surveys, and maps dating from 1764 to 1893."
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"Some of these documents were dubious or outright fraudulent. Other agreements had been signed by Wabanakis who sought to establish ongoing…"
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"… the king of the Netherlands with voluminous documentation, which informed his carefully-reasoned and pragmatic decision in 1831."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866
"… such as “Indian captivity” depositions; documents pertaining to the Newburyport, Mass privateer Sea Flower; Revolutionary War documents; French…"
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"But the task of writing about historical documents and making them relevant to non-historians is often daunting."
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"One thing made clear in the documents and historic scholarship that reference these documents, is that the settlers are considered the heart of the…"
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"… and tribal scholars have turned to these documents for different kinds of evidence, including evidence of Wabanaki agency, kinship, leadership and…"
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"Many of the documents were created and assembled to validate the holdings of the Pejepscot Proprietors, who in 1714 purchased rights originally…"
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"Many documents in these collections feature locations where multiple communities intersect, such as a deed that came late in Warrabitta’s life, at…"
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"… aboriginal right to hunt, fish and plant in their homelands. These documents collectively demonstrate that Wabanaki people intended to remain."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Search the Collections
"… volunteers can continue to work on the remainder of the pages, and as they are approved the documents will be added to the transcription database."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home
"The project documents European settlement of northern New England, specifically coastal and interior Maine, land distribution, and conflicts before…"
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"Indeed, as documents in the Barclay collection reveal, they were ultimately the basis on which the modern US-Canada border was determined."
