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Item 17527

Dentist advertisement, Portland, 1789

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1789 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Item 104168

Charles Bryant and George Mackay, Millinocket, 1904

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1904 Location: Millinocket Media: Photographic print

Item 16237

Parade, Market Square, Houlton, ca. 1905

What parade was this?

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1905 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

Tax Records

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Item 75937

474-480 Stevens Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Charles W. Smith Use: Stores/Amusement Hall/Dentist Office

Online Exhibits

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Edmund S. Muskie, Democratic nominee for U.S. vice president, 1968

Clean Water: Muskie and the Environment

Maine Senator Edmund S. Muskie earned the nickname "Mr. Clean" for his environment efforts during his tenure in Congress from 1959 to 1980. He helped created a political coalition that passed important clean air and clean water legislation, drawing on his roots in Maine.

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Rosamond Weston Eddy bookplate, ca. 1925

Bookplates Honor Annie Louise Cary

A summer resident of Wayne collected more than 3,000 bookplates to honor Maine native and noted opera singer Annie Louise Cary and to support the Cary Memorial Library.

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Pepperell Manufacturing fire insurance map, 1929

Biddeford, Saco and the Textile Industry

The largest textile factory in the country reached seven stories up on the banks of the Saco River in 1825, ushering in more than a century of making cloth in Biddeford and Saco. Along with the industry came larger populations and commercial, retail, social, and cultural growth.

Site Pages

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Lincoln, Maine - Main Street, Lincoln, ca. 1920

"The next is the home of a dentist, Dr. Charles Fuller. This house was occupied by an African American troop detachment sent here to guard the…"

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Portland and Rumford Falls Sunday Paper Train August 1898, Buckfield

Western Maine Foothills Region - Buckfield

"… also had many different practices including a dentist and a doctor. This gave the people of Buckfield a way to get everything they needed while…"

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Red Cross Car and Trailer, Main Street, Northeast Harbor, 1947

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 2 of 3

"There was a physician (three in the summer), two dentists, an attorney and an architect. There were also two billiards halls and the Neighborhood…"