Keywords: Leather production
Item 105299
The Tannery, New Limerick, ca. 1895
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1895 Location: New Limerick; Dexter Media: Large Format Negative
Item 102222
Rogers Fibre Company, Kennebunk, ca. 1915
Contributed by: Brick Store Museum Date: circa 1915 Location: Kennebunk Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.
Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.
Exhibit
Princeton: Woods and Water Built This Town
Princeton benefited from its location on a river -- the St. Croix -- that was useful for transportation of people and lumber and for powering mills as well as on its proximity to forests.
Site Page
Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay
"On cool summer evenings guests lounged in leather chairs around the large fireplace in the lobby as chauffeurs lined up in the circular driveway to…"
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Johnson Brothers and Their Shoe Factory
"… dozens of calf skins, three to four tons of split leather, and ten to twelve tons of sole leather. They had to buy some raw material too, which…"
