Maine Memory Network

Huckster's Row, Portland, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Main Street, Biddeford, ca. 1875

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1875 Location: Biddeford Media: Stereograph

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.

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"Some of the stores had barber shops or pool parlors in them. Today there is still a sawmill in town."

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"… 1960, setting up offices in the old John Trenholm barber shop on the left side of Washington Street, Highway 189, close in proximity to the future…"