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Historical Items

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Item 33488

Market Square, Bangor, 1945

Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: circa 1945 Location: Bangor Media: Postcard

Item 68008

Can Plant House, Lubec, 1975, 1975

Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: 1975 Location: Lubec Media: Kodachrome slide

Item 67389

House at 87 Main Street, Lubec, ca. 1915, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1915 Location: Lubec Media: Photograph on mat

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Washington County Through Eastern's Eye

Images taken by itinerant photographers for Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company, a real photo postcard company, provide a unique look at industry, commerce, recreation, tourism, and the communities of Washington County in the early decades of the twentieth century.

Exhibit

Lt. Charles Bridges: Getting Ahead in the Army

Sgt. Charles Bridges of Co. B of the 2nd Maine Infantry was close to the end of his two years' enlistment in early 1863 when he took advantage of an opportunity for advancement by seeking and getting a commission as an officer in the 3rd Regiment U.S. Volunteers.

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Maine Streets: The Postcard View

Photographers from the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co. of Belfast traveled throughout the state, especially in small communities, taking images for postcards. Many of these images, taken in the first three decades of the twentieth century, capture Main Streets on the brink of modernity.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 2 of 3

"Charles Bell and owned by the Forster Manufacturing Company. Tourists on their way to or from the Rangeley Lakes often stopped at the hotel (which…"

Site Page

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"… Charles Forster died, his estate funded a 16-bed hospital. Doris Clark was Bell’s nurse for 18 years. In 1937, the hospital closed, and Dr."

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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… were also two mining companies, the Blue Hill Bay Company and the East Surry Company. Despite the town's many businesses however, a worldwide…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

I have thought about Vietnam almost every day for 48 years
by Ted Heselton

Working as a heavy equipment operator in Vietnam

Story

A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down

Story

Rachel Tourigny: Richness of growing up in a big, "poor" family
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center

A most vivid and heartwarming account of life during a simpler time