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New Items
Added July 19, 2021
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Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum
Added June 11, 2021
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Maine Historical Society
Added June 11, 2021
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Hudson Museum, Univ. of Maine
Added June 8, 2021
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Maine Historical Society
Added June 1, 2021
Item Contributed by
Maine Historical Society
Added June 1, 2021
Item Contributed by
Maine Historical Society
Added June 1, 2021
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Maine Historical Society
New My Maine Stories
Added July 20, 2021
Laura Richter - Educator
by MLTI - Stories of Impact
Laura Richter was a Middle School Educator in Skowhegan, Maine as the MLTI began in 2002.
Added July 20, 2021
Colin Sutch
by MLTI - Stories of Impact
Colin Sutch was an Education student at the University of Maine as MLTI began
Added June 22, 2021
Maria, 7 years old, records impressions of staying with her grandparents in Somesville in June 2020.
Added June 22, 2021
Harold's Garage, Rome Hollow, Maine
by Mimi C
Story about Harold Hawes, owner of Harold's garage and self-styled auctioneer in Rome Hollow, Maine
New Exhibits
In 1944, the US Government established Camp Houlton, a prisoner of war (POW) internment camp for captured German soldiers during World War II. Many of the prisoners worked on local farms planting and harvesting potatoes. Some created artwork and handicrafts they sold or gave to camp guards. Camp Houlton processed and held about 3500 prisoners and operated until May 1946.
The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.
BEGIN AGAIN explores Maine's historic role, going back 528 years, in crisis that brought about the pandemic, social and economic inequities, and the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.
The Penobscot Marine Museum’s photography collections include nearly 50,000 glass plate negatives of images for "real photo" postcards produced by the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast. This exhibit features postcards from Lincoln County.
