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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Sports

"Sports High School Sports View a High School Sports Slideshow Sports, as in newspapers around the globe, occupied a prominent role in the…"

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Man on the Street"

""Man on the Street" Street scene, Monument Square, Portland, ca. 1924Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media The Portland Evening Express…"

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - 1925 National Governors' Association Convention

"1925 National Governors' Association Convention View the National Governors' Convention Slideshow, 1925 On Monday June 29, 1925, over 20 of…"

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

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

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 2 of 2

"Crime & Disaster This was the fourth school fire in Portland in 1921 and was of unknown origin. It started in the library, which did not have a…"

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 1 of 2

"Crime & Disaster Crime & Disaster A selection of photographs relating to crime & disaster in the Portland Press Herald Glass Plate Negative…"

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Davistown Museum

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Years on Mt. Desert Island

"Dr. Kendall Kittridge ChairGreat Harbor Maritime Museum The women worked along with the men in raising crops, tending the animals, preserving the…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Northeast Harbor: Rustic to Rusticators

"1930Great Harbor Maritime Museum In 1761, Abraham Somes moved his family to Mt. Desert Island and settled at the head of what is now Somes Sound…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"1945Great Harbor Maritime Museum Neighborhood houses and community halls had popped up in almost every village."

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Historic Hallowell - Schooners, Steamers, Ships and Tankers

"… "terns" were a favorite rig of Canada's Maritime Provinces. The scow schooner, which used a schooner rig on a flat-bottomed, blunt-ended scow hull…"

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Historic Hallowell - Historic Hallowell Resources and Links

"… atlases, globes, school geographies, books, maritime charts, and a variety of separate maps, including pocket, wall, children's and manuscript."

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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell History Bibliography

"Baker, William Avery. A Maritime History of Bath and the Kennebec River Region. Bath, ME.: Marine Research Society of Bath, 1973."

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Greater Portland Landmarks

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Old Berwick Historical Society

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Early Maine Photography - Occupational Photography

"… symbolizes the importance of agricultural and maritime activities to the state’s economy in the nineteenth century."

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Music in Maine - Music in Maine

"… from around the world flooded into Maine through maritime trading ports in the 18th and 19th centuries."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Inns

"Jordan Pond House staff, ca. 1910Great Harbor Maritime Museum Most Wabanakis who came to Mount Desert avoided the confines of indoor work, but…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Resources

"… & Manuscripts Baker, William Avery, 1973, “A Maritime History of Bath, Maine and the Kennebec River Region.” Bath Historical Society, 1997, “The…"

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Belfast Historical Society

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Raymond H. Fogler Library

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Lubec Landmarks

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Brick Store Museum

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Entertainment- Alameda and Opera House

"… Bath Opera House reopening, 1926Maine Maritime Museum In the late 19th and early 20th century, theaters were becoming a new and exciting…"