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John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrapbook 1: 1885-1899, Katahdin Iron Works, Silver Lake Hotel

"Scrapbook 1: 1885-1899, Katahdin Iron Works, Silver Lake Hotel "A Little Daisy," Katahdin Iron Works, 1890Maine Historical Society and Maine…"

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Historic Clothing Collection - Sally Holmes's evening gown, ca. 1824 - Page 1 of 2

"… cuffs are trimmed with the fashionable metallic silver embroidery of the day, and an elaborate chenille and metallic silver corsage embellishes the…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 22-71

"Hinckley Hannibal Hamlin Rufus Prince Annie Martin Mabelle Martin Silver Lake Hotel parlors illustrations"

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1800-1830 - Page 2 of 2

"… cuffs are trimmed with the fashionable metallic silver embroidery of the day, and an elaborate chenille and metallic silver corsage embellishes the…"

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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ice Storm Poem

"This woven web of flashing silver was deadly. Trees cried out in anguish as their heavy limbs gave way to crack and separate, in turn crushing stiff…"

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Historic Hallowell - Ice; The Ice Storm of 1998; Ice Storm '98

"… heat that crept in late, ice of blue, ice of silver, hit the silent earth, that solemn night. Ice Storm '98 Written by Amber Bell Houses were…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - John and Clara Martin wedding hack, Bangor, 1850

"… and was perfectly black of the nicest polish and silver mounted in every particular even the hook on the end of the pole and all the window…"

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Drinking Implements

"1775 Belonging to John Coburn (1725-1803), Boston Silver Courtesy of the The First Parish in Portland, Maine Unitarian Universalist This mug was…"

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Drinking: Elegance and Debauchery

"… Coaster American, probably New York, 1855-1860 Silver and birds eye maple; silver engraved Morse Collections of Victoria Mansion: The Morse-Libby…"

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"… were numerous gristmills, paper mills, three silver mines, and a foundry. Farmland dominated the rural area to the village’s west."

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Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"… kinds of foxes that were on a Gordon fox farm; silver, which was most popular, black, and red. Fox farms were invented so people could sell the…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Byron

"… including Garland Pond (Little Ellis) and Silver Lake (Ellis Pond or Roxbury Pond). Before Byron was named Byron it was called Skillertown, a name…"

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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3

"… sixteenth and seventeenth century gold and silver coins and a gold wedding-signet ring while plowing the island’s northwest slope."

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1970-1980 - Page 3 of 3

"… made of diamond quilted pale gray, white and silver lurex flecked fabric is trimmed with nubby lurex flecked braid."

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Maine State Museum

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Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 1 of 2

"… on February 28, Sergeant Trafton was awarded the “Silver Star”, his countries third highest award. His citation for this award reads in part as…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Post Office

"Among the carrier bag were sixteen silver dollars. It is said that the body is buried in the cemetery in South Winn, but the grave is unmarked."

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Mercy Hospital - Growth & Expansion - Page 2 of 2

"In 1968, Mercy marked its Silver Jubilee, commemorating a half-century of service to the community. Further growth and specialization continued over…"

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Neal Dow

"… Goblet, 1856 Gorham Co., Providence Silver with gold wash Collections of Maine Historical Society; purchased in memory of Dr."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 2 of 2

"… illustrations of the Iron Company and the Silver Lake Hotel, and wrote descriptions of the business, employees, and conditions of iron production…"

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Music in Maine - Radio Cowboys and Country Music

"… square-foot museum in the lower level of the Silver Spur Club in Mechanic Falls, making Maine the only state northeast of Nashville to have its own…"

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Elusive Championship

"… Hodgdon, Jordan Cook, Pat Moran, Josh McNutt, Max Silver, and Tyler Ross, with Gary Colson as Assistant Coach, and Lucas Frace as Manager."

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Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"… Profitable Process for the Extraction of Gold and Silver from Sea Water, Robinson Press, Boston, 1898."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"Davis and presented him with a massive solid silver watch-chain, as a small token of their appreciation of him as a man and master workman."