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Item 27074

Pendletons' Livery Stable, Islesboro, ca. 1904

Pendletons' Livery Stable, Islesboro, ca. 1904

Contributed by: Islesboro Historical Society Date: circa 1904 Location: Islesboro Media: Photographic print

Item 9769

Murray home and livery stable, Sanford, ca. 1910

Murray home and livery stable, Sanford, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative

Item 10860

Taber custom built buckboard, Houlton, 1898

Taber custom built buckboard, Houlton, 1898

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1898 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Garnsey Home, Main Street, Sanford, ca. 1900

A Tour of Sanford in 1900

This collection of images portrays many buildings in Sanford and Springvale. The images were taken around the turn of the twentieth century.

Exhibit

Taber Wagon Factory, ca. 1905

Taber Wagon

The Taber farm wagon was an innovative design that was popular on New England farms. It made lifting potato barrels onto a wagon easier and made more efficient use of the horse's work. These images glimpse the life work of its inventor, Silas W. Taber of Houlton, and the place of his invention in the farming community

Exhibit

Main Street, Bar Harbor, ca. 1910

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.

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Primary, grammar and high school building, Strong, ca. 1905

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"Strong had a livery stable in the center of town. Horses brought the mail from the train to the post office."

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Old Ell, Rye Field Lane, Northeast Harbor 1939

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"These businesses existed largely to supply food and transportation to the Asticou Inn’s summer guests. The livery stable operation was short-lived…"

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Mexico Corner ca. 1915

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico Corner

"The Bob Cat Inn and Reed Livery Stables stood across the street from the stores of Charles Stanley and Thomas Stevens."