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These sites were created for each contributing partner or as part of collaborative community projects through Maine Memory. Learn about collaborative projects on MMN.


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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Icons & Influencers

"The Portland Evening Express was a Maine pioneer in this new publication style. The paper began featuring photographs under owner Colonel Fred Dow…"

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Wiscasset's Arctic Connection

"… Slide Show Text by Cindy Dykes Images from Maine Historical Society, Blethen Maine Newspapers Explorer, scientist, author and teacher Donald B."

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs

"… Women's Clubs Power of Potential View the Maine Women's Business Convention Slideshow Delegates from the National Federation of Business…"

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Allies & Allegiance: Military comradery at the Centennial, 1920

"The state of Maine invited European and Asian allied nations to join the festivities, with an opportunity to demonstrate newly formed and established…"

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

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

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Early Maine Photography - Early Maine Photography at Maine Historical Society

"… collection at MHS is loosely categorized into two groups: The Vickery-Shettleworth Collection of Early Maine Photography and the MHS Early…"

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Maine Irish Heritage Center

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"A group of businessmen formed a committee to build wharves that would accommodate the new ships. On August 31, 1893 the S.S."

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Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

"In September of 1825, he and a group of other men built a dam. In the winter of 1825-26, Ira and his crew put 5,000,000 feet of pine logs in the…"

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Music in Maine - MAKE

"My group, The RezDogs, are an intertribal drum group based on Indian Island. Since 1998, we have travelled extensively throughout the East Coast…"

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Early Maine Photography - Occupational

"The medical profession is represented by a group tintype of six Bowdoin medical students holding instruments and specimens used in their education."

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Music in Maine - Bluegrass Music

"In 1995, Al Hawkes spearheaded a group of bluegrass music enthusiasts to create the member driven organization, Bluegrass Music Association of Maine…"

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Eliot Baha'i Archives

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Music in Maine - Community Music

"… contrast to—and perhaps competing with blackface groups—the Kemps embraced their songs and tunes as being “genuine” and “acted as though they were…"

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Early Maine Photography - MHS Early Maine Photography Collections

"In other instances, images were acquired in larger groups, or as part of family papers, business records, or similar archival collections."

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Music in Maine - Country Music

"Country musicians in Maine were a close-knit group. Curless worked with luminaries of the generation before him, like Hal Lone Pine and Al Hawkes…"

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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 1 of 5

"It had a shop in the bottom floor. Groups and organizations met at the Odd Fellows Hall. Some of the groups were Masons, Rainbow Girls, N.E.O.P, the…"

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Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"A group from each town met to organize their own fundraising. Many people canvassed the area asking for donations."

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Early Maine Photography - Occupational Photography

"… efforts of individual musicians and local musical groups, especially bands. In his ambrotype, Charles Thompson (at left) of South Berwick proudly…"

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Historic Hallowell - Maine Industrial School for Girls

"The Serenaders, the girls singing group was one of many. Listen to their work. Next steps in the stroll through Hallowell ~ Joppa."

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Narrative History: Maine Swedish Colony

"… to personally escort a carefully screened group to the "Promised Land." Here is their story, "The Coming of the Swedes." Coming of the Swedes…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Evelyn Jenkins, Lincoln Memorial Library, ca. 1954

"This picture shows Mrs. Jenkins entertaining a group of schoolchildren from Enfield in the 1950s. View additional information about this item on the…"

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Guilford, Maine - PROJECT OVERVIEW - Page 1 of 2

"… X Excited about their good fortune, the group began to meet to discuss the overall project, review the materials received from MHS, register…"

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Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 3 of 3

"… at the top of their field, they sold to Bessemer Group, who operated the Guilford site a few more years and then consolidated their Maine functions…"