Keywords: Arts and Entertainment-Media-Newspapers
Item 5980
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1923 Location: Augusta Media: Photographic print
Item 5551
Lisbon Enterprises newspaper building, 1962
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1962 Location: Lisbon Falls Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
A Handwritten Community Newspaper
The eight issues of South Freeport's handwritten newspaper, distributed in 1859, provided "general interest and amusement" to the coastal community.
Exhibit
In 1921, Guy Gannett purchased two competing Portland newspapers, merging them under the Portland Press Herald title. He followed in 1925 with the purchase the Portland Evening Express, which allowed him to combine two passions: photography and aviation.
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