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    Laurie LaBar, chief curator of history, sets up a display case of Samantha Smith items on Thursday at the Maine State Museum in Augusta. The museum will also have a display of photographs from Smith’s 1983 visit to the Soviet Union.

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    The November 1983 edition of Soviet Life had Samantha Smith on the cover, part of a new exhibit at the Maine State Museum. The museum also will have a display of photographs from Smith’s 1983 visit to the Soviet Union.

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    A traditional dress called a sarafan and a headdress that Samantha Smith wore on her trip to Soviet Union are seen on display Thursday at the Maine State Museum in Augusta.

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    Samantha Smith in the pioneer camp “Artek” during her 1983 visit to the Soviet Union.

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    Samantha Smith, left, and her friend Natalia “Natasha” Kashirina Rosston chat on July 11, 1983, on a beach in the Pioneer Camp “Artek,” on the southern coast of the Crimean Peninsula, during Smith’s visit to the Soviet Union.

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    Samantha Smith in the schoolyard of Manchester Elementary School at age 11 in 1983.

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    This 1983 file photo shows Samantha Smith at Manchester Elementary School.

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    Samantha Smith and her parents, Jane and Arthur Smith, during their tour of Russia in July 1983.

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    Samantha Smith with a letter she received from Soviet Premiere Yuri Andropov in 1983.

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