Over 800 issues of historical newspapers from Kennebunk came online this week thanks to the efforts of librarian Kate Jacobs at the Kennebunk Free Library. The Kennebunk Enterprise was a weekly newspaper published in Kennebunk, Maine between November 1904 and 1924. The Enterprise was notable for being the first woman-owned newspaper in Kennebunk, having been founded and
One of the benefits of having a scan lab at the library is the ability to crowdsource historical content that might not otherwise ever end up in an institutional collection. Earlier this summer, Robert and Sandy Stubbs of Hallowell were going through their belongings and reached out to us to see if we might be
Maine State Library staff get first peek at “new” microfilm that will be used for digitization. Several boxes of newly duplicated microfilm recently arrived at the Maine State Library in preparation for the next phase of our newspaper digitization project. The work is the result of a continuation of funding through the National Digital Newspaper
The May 2018 issue of Downeast Magazine included a feature on a growing collection of historical content that we’ve been working on in collaboration with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. The project includes nearly 1,100 reports and publications from the agency’s past that have been imaged on Maine State Library scanners and
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
Sometime in the early 1940s a pair of scrapbooks were anonymously donated to the Maine State Library. They contained postcards published in Germany during World War I or as it was known then the European War, 1914-1918. There are close to 500 individual postcards in the collection: some are reproductions of photo-graphs: others water colored
