Keywords: Standard Oil Company of New York
Item 12958
George A. Sweet General Store, Littleton, ca. 1935
Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1935 Location: Littleton Media: Photographic print
Item 20748
Lawson's Store, Madawaska Lake, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Stockholm Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: T16 R4 WELS Media: Photographic print
Item 76719
Assessor's Record, 848-852 Stevens Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Wood O. Merrill Use: Filling station
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Lincoln County through the Eastern Eye
The Penobscot Marine Museum’s photography collections include nearly 50,000 glass plate negatives of images for "real photo" postcards produced by the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast. This exhibit features postcards from Lincoln County.
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Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine
As early as 1633, entrepreneurs along the Piscataqua River in southern Maine utilized the force of the river to power a sawmill, recognizing the potential of the area's natural power sources, but it was not until the 1890s that technology made widespread electricity a reality -- and even then, consumers had to be urged to use it.
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor
"in 1898, one of the two predecessors of the Seacoast Packing cartel (pp. 70-72). When the more inclusive cartel was set up the next year, Gilman…"
