Month: January 2018

This past summer the Maine hub went live in DPLA with over 60,000 items from 64 different Maine based collections. Read DPLA’s Blog Post Welcoming Digital Maine The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is an online searchable collaborative network. The site contains information on over 18 million items (and growing), contributed by a network

In 1940, as World War II was escalating in Europe, the United States was beginning to take precautions.  In Maine, one of those precautions was to begin registering all aliens living in the State.  On June 14, 1940, Governor Lewis E. Barrows ordered the registration of aliens living in Maine by proclamation.  Immediately these aliens