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Item 98683

Alice Lucas, High School Graduation, Canton, ca. 1900

Alice Lucas, High School Graduation, Canton, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Dixfield Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Canton Media: Photographic print

Item 98684

Alice Lucas Towle, Dixfield, ca. 1920

Alice Lucas Towle, Dixfield, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Dixfield Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Dixfield Media: Photographic print

Item 80500

Intersection of Main Street and Weld Street, Dixfield, ca. 1930

Intersection of Main Street and Weld Street, Dixfield, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Dixfield Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Dixfield Media: Photographic print

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Otis Falls Pulp & Paper Mill, Livermore Falls, ca. 1896

Jay & Livermore Falls, Pioneers in Paper Making

Alvin Record and Hugh J. Chisholm were instrumental in building paper mills in Jay, Livermore, and Livermore Falls. The two industrialists helped make the towns prosperous.

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Pulp pile, St. Croix Paper Co., Woodland, ca. 1910

Making Paper, Making Maine

Paper has shaped Maine's economy, molded individual and community identities, and impacted the environment throughout Maine. When Hugh Chisholm opened the Otis Falls Pulp Company in Jay in 1888, the mill was one of the most modern paper-making facilities in the country, and was connected to national and global markets. For the next century, Maine was an international leader in the manufacture of pulp and paper.

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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.