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Keywords: Exchange Street

Historical Items

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Item 22425

Old Exchange, Portland, in 1845

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1845 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

Item 14265

Exchange Street fire, Bangor, 1932

Contributed by: Hose 5 Fire Museum Date: circa 1932 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print

Item 20832

Exchange Street, Portland, ca. 1900

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

Tax Records

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Item 50759

10 Exchange Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Albus R Cobb Use: Store & Factory

Item 50754

2 Exchange Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Estate of Eliz W. Thomas Use: Store

Item 50756

7 Exchange Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Alice P Anderson Use: Stores & Offices

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 151605

Office building on Exchange, Federal, and Market Streets, Portland, 1907

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1907 Location: Portland; Portland; Portland Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Item 150187

East Side Pharmacy, Bangor, 1945-1946

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1945–1946 Location: Bangor; Bangor Client: East Side Pharmacy Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Item 150313

Sketch for First National Bank, Portland, Me., Portland, 1882

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1882 Location: Portland; Portland Client: First National Bank Architect: John Calvin Stevens; Fassett & Stevens Architects

Online Exhibits

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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.

Exhibit

A Riot of Words: Ballads, Posters, Proclamations and Broadsides

Imagine a day 150 years ago. Looking down a side street, you see the buildings are covered with posters and signs.

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Port of Portland's Custom House and Collectors of Customs

The collector of Portland was the key to federal patronage in Maine, though other ports and towns had collectors. Through the 19th century, the revenue was the major source of Federal Government income. As in Colonial times, the person appointed to head the custom House in Casco Bay was almost always a leading community figure, or a well-connected political personage.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Presque Isle: The Star City - Maine Farmer's Exchange (MFX) Building

"Maine Farmer's Exchange (MFX) Building X Text by Mindy and Liza, students at Presque Isle Middle School Edited by Presque Isle Historical…"

Site Page

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House

"… the Port Surgeon and a room for the Merchant's Exchange and Board of Trade. When the building opened in 1858, Joseph Berry was Collector of Customs…"

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Architecture & Landscape database - Tower shopping complex, Bangor, ca. 1975

"Other addresses include Exchange Street in Bangor, ME. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

My Maine Stories

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Story

Scientist Turned Artist Making Art Out of Trash
by Ian Trask

Bowdoin College alum returns to midcoast Maine to make environmentally conscious artwork

Story

The Cup Code (working at OOB in the 1960s)
by Randy Randall

Teenagers cooking fried food in OOB and the code used identify the product and quantity.