Vintage Maine

 Emmie Fountain seated on the ledges at Ogier Point, Camden in 1900

  

Minnie Babb, Emma Babb & Margaret, July 8, 1898

  

Mothers & daughters, September 1899

  

 Summer house group: Lizzie, Myrtle French, 

Teresa?, Grace, & Margaret, June 24, 1898

  

Woman walking along Turnpike Drive (now Rt. 52) in October 1899. 

She is carrying a camera and has a dog and bicycle with her.

 

Source: Camden Public Library

Vintage Maine

 Circus parade. July 11, 1898

  

 Group at Ballard Park on August 14, 1898 - Mary Knight, Fannie Fuller, 

Marian Goodwin, Alice Merriam, & Grace Parker

   

 Lillie & Jessica Lewis in boat, October 1900

  

 Margaret & Augusta Talbot, March 1899 in back of the Congregational Church

  

Some of Miss Garland's girls, Class of 1900. 

Milton, Massachusetts, June 1900

Source: Camden Public Library

The Missouri Compromise of 1820...

 

• resulted from the conciliatory efforts of Congressman James Tallmadge of New York.


• provided for Maine to enter the Union as a free state in 1820, and Missouri to enter as a slave state the following year.


• prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory south of latitude 36°30´.


• convinced the aged and retired Thomas Jefferson that the peaceful extinction of slavery by mutual agreement was now in sight. 

ANSWER: The Missouri Compromise of 1820 provided for Maine to enter the Union as a free state in 1820, and Missouri to enter as a slave state the following year.