Keywords: Swings
Item 15581
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1902-07-19 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative
Item 152284
Children playing on a dirt covered playground, Portland, ca. 1925
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1925 Location: Portland Media: Glass negative
Exhibit
The Swinging Bridge: Walking Across the Androscoggin
Built in 1892 to entice workers at the Cabot Manufacturing Corporation in Brunswick to move to newly built housing in Topsham, the Androscoggin Pedestrian "Swinging" Bridge or Le Petit Pont quickly became important to many people traveling between the two communities.
Exhibit
Photojournalism & the 1936 Flood
Photojournalism & the 1936 Flood examines the monumental destruction caused by the historic flood of 1936 through the comprehensive and innovative photojournalism done by the Guy Gannett Publishing Company in the weeks surrounding the flood.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Martin swing, Center Street, Bangor, 1864
"… activities. He wrote of that it was "the easiest swing I ever sit in," adding, "we have had gent & Ladies swing in it from New York Indianna…"
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Circus swing, Boston, 1853
"Of the circus swing, he wrote, "The introduction of swing exercises on a rope as below commenced in this Circus which was as wonderful as any feats…"
Story
A Story in a Stick
by Jim Moulton
A story about dowsing for a well in Bowdoin
Story
Growing up DownEast
by Darrin MC Mclellan
Stories of growing up Downeast
