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Among the scrapbooks in the Peaks Island Branch Library collection are 10 volumes of Peaks Island topics assembled by Hilda Shute. Hilda Unstead Shute and her husband Albert were born, raised and married in England and emigrated to New Brunswick, Canada in 1919. They entered the USA in 1921, arriving in Portland via the Grand Trunk Railroad from Montreal. They lived, worked, and raised a son in Portland, and she lived for some time in Peaks Island. She died in1972 and is buried with her husband in Pond Grove Cemetery, Peaks Island, where their epitaph reads: "There is a corner of a foreign field that is forever England”
Note: To see Hilda Shute's original scrapbooks, please visit the Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, on Peaks Island.

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Newsclipping Scrapbooks, part 1

Portland Public Library : Peaks Island Branch

Newclippings from 1894 - 13 September 1908.

Part 1 of 5.
Newsclipping Scrapbooks, part 3

Portland Public Library : Peaks Island Branch

Newsclippings from 17 Jan 1932 - 6 Aug 1939.

Part 3 of 5.
Newsclipping Scrapbooks, part 4

Portland Public Library : Peaks Island Branch

Newsclippings from 6 Aug 1939 - 26 Jun 1952.

Part 4 of 5.
Newsclipping Scrapbooks, part 2

Portland Public Library : Peaks Island Branch

Newsclippings from 13 Sep 1908 - 28 Jul 1940.

Part 2 of 5.
Newsclipping Scrapbooks, part 5

Portland Public Library : Peaks Island Branch

Newsclippings from 25 July 1952 - 30 April 1970.

Part 5 of 5.
Hilda Shute Scrapbook, No. 1, part 1 : April 1954 - July 1955

Hilda Shute

Hilda Unstead Shute and her husband Albert were born, raised and married in England and emigrated to New Brunswick, Canada in 1919. They entered the USA in 1921, arriving in Portland via the Grand Trunk Railroad from Montreal. They lived, worked, and raised a son in Portland, and she lived for some time in Peaks Island. She died in1972 and is buried with her husband in Pond Grove Cemetery, Peaks Island, where their epitaph reads: "There is a corner of a foreign field that is forever England”
Hilda Shute Scrapbook, No. 1, part 2 : April 1954 - July 1955

Hilda Shute
Hilda Shute Scrapbook, No. 2, part 1 : November 1955 - July 1956

Hilda Shute
Hilda Shute Scrapbook, No. 2, part 2 : November 1955 - July 1956

Hilda Shute
Hilda Shute Scrapbook, No. 10, part 2 : April 1957 - February 1959

Hilda Shute
Hilda Shute Scrapbook, No. 4, part 1 : April - December 1957

Hilda Shute
Hilda Shute Scrapbook, No. 4, part 2 : April - December 1957

Hilda Shute
Hilda Shute Scrapbook, No. 4, part 3 : April - December 1957

Hilda Shute
Hilda Shute Scrapbook, No. 10, part 1 : April 1957 - February 1959

Hilda Shute
Hilda Shute Scrapbook, No. 5 : July 1959 - April 1960

Hilda Shute
Hilda Shute Scrapbook, No. 6, part 1 : May - November 1960

Hilda Shute
Hilda Shute Scrapbook, No. 6, part 2 : May - November 1960

Hilda Shute
Hilda Shute Scrapbook, No. 7 : December 1960 - July 1961

Hilda Shute
Jessie B. Trefethen Scrapbook

Jessie B. Trefethen

Newsclippings compiled by Miss Jessie B.Trefethen, retired professor of art, Oberlin College and Peaks Island resident.

Scrapbook made available in 1991 by Editha Pederson Nelson.
Hilda Shute Scrapbook, No. 8 : July 1961 - May 1962

Hilda Shute
Hilda Shute Scrapbook, No. 3 : August 1968 - July 1970

Hilda Shute
Hilda Shute Scrapbook, No. 9 : November 1968 - January 1969

Hilda Shute
Peaks Island Scrapbook : 1954 - 1970, part 1 (1954 - 1958)

Portland Public Library : Peaks Island Branch
Peaks Island Scrapbook : 1954 - 1970, part 2 (1959)

Portland Public Library : Peaks Island Branch
Peaks Island Scrapbook : 1954 - 1970, part 3 (1960)

Portland Public Library : Peaks Island Branch

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