Keywords: Ice business
Item 1203
Ice scraping, Bowdoinham, ca. 1895
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Bowdoinham Media: Photographic print
Item 12322
Dee's Ice Cream Pint, Brunswick, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1950 Location: Brunswick Media: Waxed cardboard
Item 86355
442 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Portland Sebago Ice Company Use: Blacksmith Shop
Item 85851
1 Waldo Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Carrie S. Bayes Use: Store
Exhibit
Maine's frozen rivers and lakes provided an economic opportunity. The state shipped thousands of tons of ice to ports along the East Coast and to the West Indies that workers had cut and packed in sawdust for shipment or later use.
Exhibit
Photojournalism & the 1936 Flood
Photojournalism & the 1936 Flood examines the monumental destruction caused by the historic flood of 1936 through the comprehensive and innovative photojournalism done by the Guy Gannett Publishing Company in the weeks surrounding the flood.
Site Page
Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries
"Randlett. The ice cream shop still remains, now known as the Dark Harbor Shop. Dark Harbor Post Office, Islesboro, ca."
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting
"Forty-two ice houses like “Ice Mania”, covered the shores of the Kennebec River. Ice men are guiding ice blocks toward the steam-powered conveyor…"
Story
Elizabeth Mantis Spiliopoulos: passion for life & Greek heritage
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
A spunky 99-year-old shares her crystal-clear recollections of all the changes in her lifetime
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
