Keywords: Merchant marine Signalling
Item 7642
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Media: Photoprint
Item 6157
Signals at the Portland Observatory, ca. 1807
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1807 Location: Portland Media: Watercolor on paper
Exhibit
Art of the People: Folk Art in Maine
For many different reasons people saved and carefully preserved the objects in this exhibit. Eventually, along with the memories they hold, the objects were passed to the Maine Historical Society. Object and memory, serve as a powerful way to explore history and to connect to the lives of people in the past.
Exhibit
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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"… era of economic prosperity ended in the 1970s, signaled by the closing of American Can and all but two of the town’s sardine factories."
