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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Aerial Photography

"Aerial Photography Eye In The Sky Slideshow In 1921, Guy Gannett purchased two competing Portland newspapers, merging them under the Portland…"

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Historic Hallowell - A Walk On The Streets During The Ice Storm

"… years had been quite nice But this year the sky fell in sheets of ice Booming cracks echo through the night There are no bugs on the ground, no…"

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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ice Storm of 1998

"Ice falling from the sky for eight days without stopping. Ten years later, in the year 2008 the effects on trees still show."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 4 of 4

"… Society in the spring, sun high in the sky, water rushing over granite rock, the Androscoggin River flowing high with melting winter snows from…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"The Bar Harbor Horse Show Clear skies, a bright sun, and a mild sea breeze made the second day of the Horse Show at Bar Harbor a brilliant picture."

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 1 of 2

"… and fine weather" and the same but cloudy skies prevailed on July 3. The published Program for the extensive two day anniversary lists athletic…"

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Belfast Historical Society

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Historic Clothing Collection - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 2 of 2

"… of Mind: Becoming Maine (2020), Holding up the Sky: Wabanaki people, culture, history, and art (2019), Designing Acadia (2017), World War I and the…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 3 of 4

"… known as the Ground Observer Corps watched the skies for enemy aircraft and then again during the Cold War of the 1950s."

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Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair

"… music and see the Ferris wheel turning in the sky. They could smell the dust of the race track where the sprinkling cart had moistened it; and they…"

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Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"… 1938 a two seated biplane swooped down out of the skies and into the history books as the first Air Mail service landed in the field at the Hudson…"

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Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… it rained for a week and the water fell from the skies in sheets. First came the ice, then logs and ice, and finally buildings were seen in the…"

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Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"The sky is dark and clouded, in perfect imitation of our moods, as our employer and dear friend is dead."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"… full and strong, You can hear it ring to the very skies with an echo loud and long, There’s a mighty band from “Aroostook land” with heart and hand…"

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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