Keywords: New England Grain Company
Item 98974
6 Portland Street, Mott Walker's New England Grain Company, Bridgton, ca. 1938
Contributed by: Bridgton Historical Society Date: circa 1938 Location: Bridgton Media: Ink on paper, photograph
Item 103739
Fire on Hobson's Wharf, Portland, 1934
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1930 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative
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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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Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4
"… to produce lumber and shingles, shovel handles, grains from the grist mills, cheese and starch making facilities, and wool carding products."
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad
"… to the amount of livestock, it takes a lot of grain to feed working teams of horses and oxen.” (Teams were not only on farms but were working in…"
