Keywords: Antique shops
Item 31573
Flooding in Berdan's Antique Shop, Hallowell, 1987
Courtesy of Sumner A. Webber, Sr., an individual partner Date: 1987-04-01 Location: Hallowell Media: Photographic print
Item 98767
Lower Weld Street, Dixfield, ca. 1940
Contributed by: Dixfield Historical Society Date: circa 1945 Location: Dixfield Media: Photographic print
Item 70643
Assessor's Record, 88-90 Preble Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Estate of John Sullivan Use: Shop - Antique
Exhibit
Summer Folk: The Postcard View
Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."
Exhibit
Gifts From Gluskabe: Maine Indian Artforms
According to legend, the Great Spirit created Gluskabe, who shaped the world of the Native People of Maine, and taught them how to use and respect the land and the resources around them. This exhibit celebrates the gifts of Gluskabe with Maine Indian art works from the early nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries.
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison leaves Thomaston - 2002
"… By the 21st century, the prison was again quite antiquated. A new larger facility was built in the neighboring town of Warren, and prisoners were…"
Site Page
"… photographs and artifacts, transcribed several antiquated documents, and learned how to carefully handle and photograph historical objects."
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
