Keywords: Street Signs
Item 12067
Sign Board, New Portland, ca. 1931
Contributed by: Stanley Museum Date: circa 1931 Location: New Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 35413
Exchange Street, Ashland, ca. 1900
Contributed by: D'Anne Baillargeon through Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Ashland Media: Glass Negative
Item 35761
2-8 Brown Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Albert S Rines Use: Stores & Offices
Item 35597
876 Brighton Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Albert S Dresser Use: Dwelling - Two Family and Store
Item 151738
Home for aged women, Portland, 1900-1926
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1900–1926 Location: Portland Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
A Riot of Words: Ballads, Posters, Proclamations and Broadsides
Imagine a day 150 years ago. Looking down a side street, you see the buildings are covered with posters and signs.
Site Page
Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland
"A sign advertised Chase as a "Manufacturer of Carriages, Sleighs and Wheels." Extending from the village center is The Lane, leading to the Loring…"
Site Page
Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row
"Charles A. Harriman, who owned a jewelry and glasses business had a sign of an eye hanging outside his store."
Story
Orphanage on Revere Street
by anonymous
An orphanage operated by a Mrs. Oliver on 54 Revere Street in Portland, Maine in 1930.
Story
Appreciation sign for essential health care workers
by Henry J Gartley
A neighbor expresses their appreciation for the workers at a local nursing home.
