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Full-Text Articles in History
We Exist Series 1: Family - Quotes, Lance Gibbs Phd
We Exist Series 1: Family - Quotes, Lance Gibbs Phd
Series 1: Family - Quotes
In this section, we have selected quotes that represent how Black residents in Maine view their family life. The quotes are taken from transcripts of the oral history project “Home Is Where I Make It”: African American Community and Activism in Greater Portland, Maine.” The interview subjects are all native to Maine or are longtime residents of Maine. The original intent of the “Home Is Where I Make It” project was to highlight Black residents’ history and struggle for community in southern Maine in both their formal organizational memberships and day-to-day activities. The interviews, however, unearthed a wealth …
French Canadian Heritage In New England, Emmanuel Kayembe Phd
French Canadian Heritage In New England, Emmanuel Kayembe Phd
Original Research
Readings on French culture and history in Canada and the United States.
The Grand Tour And Development Of Tourism: 1600-1900, Osher Map Library
The Grand Tour And Development Of Tourism: 1600-1900, Osher Map Library
Osher Map Library Exhibition Catalogs
The Grand Tour and Development of Tourism, 1600 to 1900.
October 4, 2011 to April 28, 2012
The 400th anniversary of Thomas Coryat’s "Crudities" (1611), the first tourist memoir, is celebrated by this history, to 1918, of the European tourism industry and the development of guidebooks and maps.
Curated by Yolanda Theunissen, USM.
The Maine Indian Land Claims Case: Pro And Con, Joseph Pecoraro
The Maine Indian Land Claims Case: Pro And Con, Joseph Pecoraro
Maine Collection
The Maine Indian Land Claims Case: Pro and Con / Materials compiled by Dr. Joseph Pecoraro, curriculum consultant, State Department of Educational and Cultural Services, 1979.
"This is a collection of articles taken from The Church World dealing with the Maine Indian Land Claim issue."
Community Action Programs And Poor People Of Maine : A History, Maine. Division Of Economic Opportunity
Community Action Programs And Poor People Of Maine : A History, Maine. Division Of Economic Opportunity
Maine Collection
Community Action Programs and Poor People of Maine : A History.
State of Maine. Division of Economic Opportunity. Augusta, Maine, 1975.
Contents: 1.Introduction / 2.Myths of the Poor in Maine / 3.Concepts / 4.Head Start / 5.Legal Services-The Poor and the Law / 6.Health / 7.Native Americans / 8.Housing / 9.The Elderly-Never Too Late to Fight Poverty / 10.Manpower Training / 11.Donated Commodities / 12.Vista / 13.Poverty Is Here to Stay / 14.Results of the War / 15.The Role of SEOO and New Directions for CAP
First Families: Woodland People Of Maine And The Canadian Maritimes, Edith Favour
First Families: Woodland People Of Maine And The Canadian Maritimes, Edith Favour
Maine Collection
First Families: Woodland People of Maine and the Canadian Maritimes
by Edith Favour, with illustrations by Alice Dengler
Published and edited by the State of Maine, Department of Educational and Cultural Services, Division of Curriculum, 1975.
The Oxford Hills And Other Papers, Charles E. Waterman
The Oxford Hills And Other Papers, Charles E. Waterman
Maine Collection
The Oxford Hills and Other Papers
by Charles E. Waterman
Merrill & Webber Co., Auburn, Maine 1929.
Contents: The Oxford Hills / Mansion and Man / Androscoggin Valley Paper-Makers / Gem Stones of the White Mountain Foot Hills / Andrew Cragie
A History Of Swan's Island, Maine, Herman Wesley Small M.D.
A History Of Swan's Island, Maine, Herman Wesley Small M.D.
Maine Collection
A History of Swan's Island, Maine
by H.W. Small, M.D. (1865-1937)
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction - Aborigines - Discovery, 2. Purchase - Settlement and Land Titles, 3. A Sketch of the Life of Col. James Swan, 4. Biographical Sketches of early Settlers, 5. Gott's Island, 6. The Fishing Industry, 7. Synopsis of the Municipal Records, 8. Miscellaneous - Index of First Settlers
The Story Of New Sweden As Told At The Quarter Centennial Celebration Of The Founding Of The Swedish Colony In The Woods Of Maine, June 25, 1895, Stanley J. Estes
The Story Of New Sweden As Told At The Quarter Centennial Celebration Of The Founding Of The Swedish Colony In The Woods Of Maine, June 25, 1895, Stanley J. Estes
Maine Collection
The Story of New Sweden as Told at the Quarter Centennial Celebration of the Founding of the Swedish Colony in the Woods of Maine, June 25, 1895
Edited by Stanley J. Estes
Bar Harbor, F. Marion Crawford
Bar Harbor, F. Marion Crawford
Maine Collection
Bar Harbor
by Francis Marion Crawford. Illustrated by C.S. Reinhart.
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1896.
American Summer Resorts
Illustrated History Of Kennebec County Maine 1625-1799-1892 (Vol.2), Henry D. Kingsbury, Simeon L. Deyo
Illustrated History Of Kennebec County Maine 1625-1799-1892 (Vol.2), Henry D. Kingsbury, Simeon L. Deyo
Osher Map Library Rare Books
Illustrated History of Kennebec County Maine 1625-1799-1892 - Volume II
Editors: Henry D. Kingsbury and Simeon L. Deyo
Second bound volume comprises pages 601-1273.
"Edition Limited to 1600 Prints"- Copyrighted 1892.
637 p. : ill. ; 28 cm
Illustrated History Of Kennebec County Maine 1625-1799-1892 (Vol.1), Henry D. Kingsbury, Simeon L. Deyo
Illustrated History Of Kennebec County Maine 1625-1799-1892 (Vol.1), Henry D. Kingsbury, Simeon L. Deyo
Osher Map Library Rare Books
Illustrated History of Kennebec County Maine 1625-1799-1892 - Volume I.
Editors: Henry D. Kingsbury and Simeon L. Deyo.
First bound volume comprises pages 1-600.
"Edition Limited to 1600 Prints"- Copyrighted 1892.
600 p. : ill. ; 28 cm
History Of Androscoggin County, Maine (Illustrated), Georgia Drew Merrill (Ed.)
History Of Androscoggin County, Maine (Illustrated), Georgia Drew Merrill (Ed.)
Osher Map Library Rare Books
History of Androscoggin County, Maine (Illustrated)
Editor: Georgia Drew Merrill
Copyright, 1891
W.A. Fergusson & Co., Boston, Mass. (Journal Press, Lewiston, Me.)
879 p.: ill., ports.; 26 cm
The New Gloucester Centennial, September 7, 1874, T. H. Haskell
The New Gloucester Centennial, September 7, 1874, T. H. Haskell
Maine Collection
The New Gloucester Centennial, September 7, 1874
by T.H. Haskell
Appendix Lists: " Votes of the Town During the Revolution", "Roll of Capt. Parsons' Company", "Polls and Estates", "Aged People" etc.