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Tag Archives: Scarborough Historical Society
Faces of the Past: Scarborough High School Memories from the Linwood Dyer Collection (1936–1938)
Photo FridayLinwood Dyer Photo Collection, Part 079Album 2023.02.05.By Don Taylor As part of my ongoing work with the Linwood Dyer Collection, I look at photos from his collection. Looking at a well-worn burgundy album, most the photos in the album … Continue reading
Posted in Linwood Dyer Collection, Maine High Schools
Tagged Jeanette Johnson, 1930s portraits, girls basketball, 1930s basketball, Scarborough Maine history, John Verrill, Letitia Leary, Harriet Snow, Scarborough Historical Society, Four Corners yearbook, Scarborough High School, Percy Knight, boys basketball, Maynard Meserve
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Preserving Legacies: Blackstone, Bourgoin, Johnston, Skillings, & Stevens
Linwood Dyer Collection (Part 069)By Don Taylor Continuing with the Linwood Dyer Photo Collection, two photos are from “High School Graduation Portraits.” I have a handful of other pictures from that group that require further work to identify, because the … Continue reading
New Faces from the 1960s: High School Graduation Photos
Chadbourne, Chapman, Hague, Kilmartin, & Regan. Linwood Dyer Collection (Part 067)By Don Taylor As I neared the end of the Willis Skillin Graduation Album, I found that the remaining images were, unfortunately, unlabeled and don’t appear to be student portraits, … Continue reading
Posted in High School Yearbooks, Photo Identification, Maine History, Portland History, Faces from the Past, Linwood Dyer Collection, 1960s Genealogy, Standish History, Family Photo Research, Educational Archives
Tagged graduation photos, Deering High School, Maine high school history, Cathedral High School, Portland Maine, photo genealogy, Scarborough Historical Society, Bonny Eagle High School, 1960s graduates, Three Arts Studio
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Uncovering the Faces of Deering High (Part 4):
In this latest post, I explore more remarkable portraits from a 19th-century Deering High School album, featuring students with surnames like Coffin, Johnson, Skillin, and Trufant. Could one of these individuals be your ancestor? Read more and help reconnect these faces with their families. Continue reading
Posted in Faces from the Past, Linwood Dyer Collection, Willis Skillin Graduation Album
Tagged Historical Photos, Family History, Victorian Era, Photo Identification, Dead Fred, FamilySearch, Ancestry Research, Coffin Family, Trufant, Skillin, Linwood Dyer Collection, Maine genealogy, Genealogy, Deering High, Portland Maine, Cabinet Cards, Scarborough Historical Society
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List of Kings from the William King Scrapbook
William King Scrapbook Page 28 – List of Kings Amanuensis Monday [We have a project at the Scarborough (Maine) Historical Society (SHS) where we are scanning and digitizing scrapbooks. Most of the pages are newspaper clippings and other documents which … Continue reading
