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Historical Items

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Item 12872

Emmie Bailey Whitney at Katahdin, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1935 Media: Photographic print

Item 16964

Bailey home, Baileyville, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Alexander-Crawford Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Woodland Media: Photographic print

Item 12191

The Homestead, Bailey Island, 1938

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: 1938-08-26 Location: Harpswell; Bailey Island Media: Photograph, print

Tax Records

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Item 32905

Dwelling, Bailey Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: John J Fitzsimmons Use: Dwelling - Single family

Item 33098

Dwelling, Bailey Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Isaiah M Harvie Use: Dwelling - Single family

Item 33185

Bungalow, Bailey Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Charles Guy Price Style: Bungalow Use: Bungalow

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 150437

Rendering for Irving C. Bailey Esq., Winthrop, 1883

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1883 Location: Winthrop Client: Irving C. Bailey Architect: George M. Coombs

Item 151580

Winthrop Library, Winthrop, 1916

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1916 Location: Winthrop Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Item 151049

Guy P. Gannett residence, Cape Elizabeth, 1927-1929

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1927–1929 Location: Cape Elizabeth Client: Guy P. Gannett Architect: John P. Thomas

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Capturing Arts and Artists in the 1930s

Emmie Bailey Whitney of the Lewiston Journal Saturday Magazine and her husband, noted amateur photographer G. Herbert Whitney, captured in words and photographs the richness of Maine's arts scene during the Great Depression.

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Umbazooksus & Beyond

Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.

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Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine

As early as 1633, entrepreneurs along the Piscataqua River in southern Maine utilized the force of the river to power a sawmill, recognizing the potential of the area's natural power sources, but it was not until the 1890s that technology made widespread electricity a reality -- and even then, consumers had to be urged to use it.

Site Pages

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - "Bailey's Algebra" Textbook

""Bailey's Algebra" Textbook Contributed by Farmington Historical Society Description View additional information about this item on the…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Lower Main Street looking north, Lincoln, ca. 1948

"The first store on the left was Bailey's Drug Store. Next was Carney's clothing store and the third building was Grindell's Mens Clothing Store."

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Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 2 of 2

"The Society’s collection includes an ambrotype of a young Bailey and his wife Irene along with two of his paintings, the Portland Light Infantry…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

First night on the pulp pile at zero degrees, to mill foreman
by Arthur Benedetto

I worked my way up in International Paper, moving from the pick ax pile to a foreman on computers

Story

Portland in the 1940s
by Carol Norton Hall

As a young woman in Portland during WWII, the presence of servicemen was life changing.

Lesson Plans

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Lesson Plan

Bicentennial Lesson Plan

Maine in the News: World War I Newspaper Project

Grade Level: 9-12 Content Area: Social Studies
This lesson plan is designed to introduce students to the important role that Maine played in World War I. Students will act as investigators in order to learn about the time period as well as the active role that Maine took on.