Pawped's Historic Archive on the Maine Coon

on the "Pawpeds"-website -  wellknown for the database where we can see and research and testmate pedigrees of over 16000 Maine Coons from the very first registered ones on -  you can research through a quite big section which is beholden to our breeds history, collecting articles, interviews, cattery presentations :

So we can find a section on the Maine Coon Ancestors - including the Methusalem-list of breeding cats who got over 15 year old :  https://www.pawpeds.com/MCO/ancestors/ ,

and a section where you find a collection of all the interesting historical informations on our breed, the
Maine Coon Heritage Site:  https://www.pawpeds.com/MCO/mchs/ 

Interesting also, and highly recommendable is the course system, that pawpeds offers to  fanciers and especially breeders of cats:  https://www.pawpeds.com/pawacademy/courses/

MCBFA's Historic Archive of the
"Scratch Sheet" from 1967 until 2013

Also on the MCBFA website we can find a huge archive of historical lore on our Breed, all the "Scratch Sheets", the members newsletter & Magazine from the foundation of MCBFA prior to the acknowlegdement of the breed in the various associations until its last issue in 2013 : this might be a most fascinating read, lots of information on breed, breders, catteries, health, show-wins and also some trivia you will have never imagined: http://www.mcbfa.org/coonmaine.html 

"VARIA" - but Maine Coon related

for the geneticist I found a rather interesting site about the genetic diversity of the Maine Coon - check it out.: 
https://www.catterymacadamia.com/amp/genetic-diversity-of-the-maine-coon