Keywords: Climb
Item 41190
Ladder climb competition at Portland Kiwanis reunion, Scarborough, 1920
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1920-08-07 Location: Scarborough Media: Glass Negative
Item 103793
Four skiers on the Mt. Washington Auto Road, New Hampshire, 1936
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1936-12-15 Location: Sargent's Purchase Media: Glass Negative
Item 111553
Salt Pump climbing gym floor plan, Scarborough, 2013
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2013 Location: Scarborough Clients: Taki Miyamoto; Salt Pump Architect: Carol A. Wilson; Carol A. Wilson, Architect
Exhibit
The novelty of organized auto racing came to Maine in 1911 with a hill-climbing event in Poland and speed racing at Old Orchard Beach. Drivers and cars came from all over New England for these events.
Exhibit
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.
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - Primary school on School Street, Lincoln, ca. 1905
"A man is climbing up a ladder next to the school, and there are many carts and wagons with spectators."
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - Mourning Clothing
"Those climbing the middle-class social echelons felt pressured to participate in excessive mourning, although such indulgence was often seen as…"
Story
The Point
by Norma K. Salway
In the summer, on the eastern shore of Songo, kids dove from a leaning tree
Story
A Smart Horse
by Lynn Peasley Sanborn
The horse brings the hay home while the boys are swimming.