Keywords: Maine State Pier
Item 71700
State Pier, Portland, ca. 1938
Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1938 Location: Portland Media: Linen texture postcard
Item 15421
Maine State Pier, Portland, 1922
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1922 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 37243
Owner in 1924: Port of Portland - Directors of
Item 37240
Shed, State Pier, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Port of Portland - Directors of Use: Shed - Freight
Exhibit
These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.
Exhibit
Promoting Rockland Through a Stereopticon, 1875
Frank Crockett and photographer J.P. Armbrust took stereo views of Rockland's downtown, industry, and notable homes in the 1870s as a way to promote tourism to the town.
Site Page
Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - 1925 National Governors' Association Convention
"The guns were fired from Ft. Williams, the horns came from the 5th Maine Infantry band, and whistles were from the steamboat Calvin Austin."
Site Page
Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Wiscasset's Arctic Connection
"… Schooner Bowdoin, backing off the pier, Wiscasset, 1926 View the Wiscasset's Arctic Connection Slide Show Text by Cindy Dykes Images from…"
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
Story
In an Old, Abandoned Island House, I Found my Mentor and my Muse
by Robin Clifford Wood
An aspiring writer finds inspiration and a mentor from the past in an old island home.
