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Historical Items

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Item 22030

Albert M. Spear, Gardiner, ca. 1893

Contributed by: Maine State Archives Date: circa 1893 Location: Augusta; Gardiner Media: Carte de visite

Item 23485

Fish spear, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Hudson Museum, Univ. of Maine Date: circa 1900 Media: Wood, steel

Item 79677

Maj. Ellis Spear, 20th Maine, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864 Media: Carte de visite

Tax Records

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Item 83531

Spear property, Spruce Avenue, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Estelle E. Spear Use: Summer Dwelling

Item 83106

Spear property, N. Side Seashore Avenue, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Estelle E. Spear Use: Summer Dwelling

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 151328

Garage and shop for New England Public Service Co., Rockland, 1927

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1927–1930 Location: Rockland; Rockland; Rockland Client: New England Public Service Co. Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador

"The Bowdoin Boys" -- some students and recent graduates -- traveled to Labrador in 1891 to collect artifacts, specimens, and to try to find Grand Falls, a waterfall deep in Labrador's interior.

Exhibit

The Sanitary Commission: Meeting Needs of Soldiers, Families

The Sanitary Commission, formed soon after the Civil War began in the spring of 1861, dealt with the health, relief needs, and morale of soldiers and their families. The Maine Agency helped families and soldiers with everything from furloughs to getting new socks.

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 Pages

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Site Page

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"The children would hunt sea birds and spear crabs and lobsters. The men went deep sea spearing for (Passamaquoddy) porpoises and seals."

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"… location of the Spear shipyard, started by David Spear and carried on by his son David Spear Jr. until 1869."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… they used to make beautifully crafted “fluted” spear points. Despite the evidence of early Paleoindians in the Munsungan Lake area, the physical…"