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Immigration

People who came to Maine from other countries, and the families and communities they built.

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AI-colorized interpretation of Lewis Hine’s photograph of five-year-old Preston, barefoot against an Eastport cannery wall, holding a sardine carton, August 1911Eight Years Old, With a Butcher Knife: Lewis Hine in Eastport’s Sardine Canneries, 19119 min readThe 1875 bird's-eye view of Lewiston and Auburn, Maine, looking east across the Androscoggin River, with the falls, the canals, rows of brick textile mills, church steeples and the street grid climbing the hillsLittle Canada in Lewiston: How a Pasture Became a Neighborhood, Map by Map8 min readToy Len Goon smiling as she holds her framed American Mothers Committee certificate naming her 1952 Mother for the State of MaineToy Len Goon: The Portland Laundry Owner Who Became America’s Mother of 19529 min readBest Of
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