Keywords: Sporting Goods stores
Item 31411
Dakin's Sporting Goods uniforms out of Bangor, 1930
Contributed by: Bangor Historical Society Date: 1930 Location: Bangor; Hanover Media: Photographic print
Item 31255
Dakin Sporting Goods Hunting And Fishing Window Display, Bangor, ca. 1937
Contributed by: Bangor Historical Society Date: circa 1937 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print
Item 35210
569-575 Brighton Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Eoline M Wilson Use: Filling Station & Store
Exhibit
From French Canadians to Franco-Americans
French Canadians who emigrated to the Lewiston-Auburn area faced discrimination as children and adults -- such as living in "Little Canada" tenements and being ridiculed for speaking French -- but also adapted to their new lives and sustained many cultural traditions.
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Success at riding a bike mirrored success in life. Bicycling could bring families together. Bicycling was good for one's health. Bicycling was fun. Bicycles could go fast. Such were some of the arguments made to induce many thousands of people around Maine and the nation to take up the new pastime at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries
"… Williams Brothers operated a large grocery store featuring fancy goods, (ie: caviar, goose liver, specially packed canned foods from SS Pierce Co…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1890-1900 - Page 1 of 3
"… Libby's in Portland, and in small town dry-goods stores. Reasonably priced plain skirts, jackets, and blouses that became the norm for the working…"
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
Story
Dr Michael Guignard: Passion for research & Franco-American root
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
A personal journey of life in a Franco-American community with unique insights on adoption
