Keywords: 1940s cars
Item 27201
Looking West on Main Street, Thomaston, ca. 1947
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: 1947 Location: Thomaston Media: Photographic print
Item 66143
Maine Turnpike at Biddeford, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1941 Location: Biddeford Media: Linen texture postcard
Exhibit
Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye
The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.
Exhibit
Christmas, a Christian holiday observed by many Mainers, has a very public, seasonal face that makes it visible to those of all beliefs.
Site Page
Highlighting Historical Hampden - Bob's Bears
"… happened on a warm August day in the mid- to late 1940s. I would have been eight or ten years old at the time. The mind dims as to the actual year."
Site Page
Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts
"… 1890s, yachting in the 1920s and tennis in the 1940s. First Tarratine Golf Club, Islesboro, ca."
Story
Learning to fly and instructing cadets at West Point during WWII
by Vera Cleaves
West Point during World War II
Story
My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne
Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima
