Keywords: Chemical Plant
Item 14641
Eastern Manufacturing chemical plant, Brewer, 1921
Contributed by: City of Brewer Date: 1921 Location: Brewer Media: Photographic print
Item 82227
Hypochlorite Plant at Hinckley Brook, Standish, 1916
Contributed by: Portland Water District Date: circa 1916 Location: Standish Media: Lantern slide
Item 150233
Northern Chemical Industries superphosphate plant, Searsport, 1943-1944
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1943–1944 Location: Searsport Client: Northern Chemical Industries Inc. Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell
Exhibit
CODE RED: Climate, Justice & Natural History Collections
Explore topics around climate change by reuniting collections from one of the nation's earliest natural history museums, the Portland Society of Natural History. The exhibition focuses on how museums collect, and the role of humans in creating changes in society, climate, and biodiversity.
Exhibit
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.
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1920-1930 - Page 1 of 3
"… three years of the war's end in 1918, large chemical plants in southern states (originally developed for military purposes) were quickly adapted…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - Mid to Late Nineteenth Century
"The discovery of chemical dyes and the gradual growth of a chemical dye industry was another significant mid-late nineteenth century development."
