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Keywords: J. Stevens and Company

Historical Items

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Item 12970

J. Stevens and Company rifle, 1864

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1865 Location: Houlton; Chicopee Falls Media: Steel, wood

Item 116625

Plymouth Company Records, Volume 4, 1800-1811

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1768–1753 Location: Augusta; Whitefield Media: Ink on Paper
This record contains 592 images.

Item 112089

Pejepscot Company Records, Volume 6, 1730-1821

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1730–1821 Location: Boothbay Harbor; Bowdoinham; Brunswick; Harpswell Media: Ink on paper
This record contains 427 images.

Tax Records

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Item 63333

204-206 Middle Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Heirs of Harrison J. Libby Use: Store

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 151572

J. B. Brown & Sons alterations on Pine St., Portland, 1919

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1919 Location: Portland Client: J. B. Brown & Sons Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Item 151571

J. B. Brown & Sons store alterations, Portland, 1916-1917

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1916–1917 Location: Portland; Portland Client: J. B. Brown & Sons Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Item 151620

J. C. Hamlen house, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Client: J. C. Hamlen Architect: John Calvin Stevens and Albert Winslow Cobb Architects

Online Exhibits

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Educating Oneself: Carnegie Libraries

Industrialist Andrew Carnegie gave grants for 20 libraries in Maine between 1897 and 1912, specifying that the town own the land, set aside funds for maintenance, have room to expand -- and offer library services at no charge.

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Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye

The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.

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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

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - John Frank Stevens

"… in West Gardiner Maine on April 25th 1853 to John Stevens, who was a tanner and a farmer, and his wife, Harriet Leslie French."

Site Page

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"Douglas clothing store, and John O. Shaw who sold stationary supplies, books and other random gifts (see receipt)."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Resources

"Resources Mountains of Maine, Steven Pinkham, Down East Books, 2009 Stand Firm Ye Boys from Maine, Thomas Desjardin, Oxford University Press, 1995…"

My Maine Stories

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John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne

Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.

Story

History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars