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Keywords: Bowdoin Paper Company

Historical Items

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Item 108646

Paper mill, Topsham, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1910 Location: Topsham Media: Glass Plate Negative

Item 18723

Workers, Pejepscot Paper Mill, Topsham, ca. 1880

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1880 Location: Topsham; Topsham Media: Photographic print

Item 18724

Pejepscot Paper Company, Topsham, 1936

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1936-03-20 Location: Topsham Media: Photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 116374

Payson house on Bowdoin Street, Portland, 1901

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1901 Location: Portland Client: Franklin C. Payson Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Item 116476

Baxter House at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, 1950-1951

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1950–1951 Location: Brunswick Client: Sigma Nu Architect: John Howard Stevens and John Calvin Stevens II Architects

Item 116373

Payson cottage in Falmouth Foreside, Falmouth, 1926

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1926 Location: Falmouth Client: Franklin C. Payson Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Colonial Cartography: The Plymouth Company Maps

The Plymouth Company (1749-1816) managed one of the very early land grants in Maine along the Kennebec River. The maps from the Plymouth Company's collection of records constitute some of the earliest cartographic works of colonial America.

Exhibit

Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye

The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.

Exhibit

The Swinging Bridge: Walking Across the Androscoggin

Built in 1892 to entice workers at the Cabot Manufacturing Corporation in Brunswick to move to newly built housing in Topsham, the Androscoggin Pedestrian "Swinging" Bridge or Le Petit Pont quickly became important to many people traveling between the two communities.

Site Pages

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866

"… the last clerk of the company, Josiah Little, a Bowdoin College classmate. McKeen gifted them to MHS after his death."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Plymouth Company (Kennebec Proprietors) records, ca. 1625-1824

"… cash books, letterbooks and grants; loose papers, correspondence, accounts, claims and other papers; petitions for grants; deeds, bills and…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies

"William Bowdoin William Bowdoin became second only to Silvester Gardiner in proprietary influence from the beginning of 1752 to the start of the…"