Keywords: Tin Shop
Item 54180
Trecartin Tin Shop building, Lubec, 1975, 1975
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: 1975 Location: Lubec Media: Kodachrome slide
Item 15607
Market Square in Houlton during fire, 1884
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1884 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Item 86745
Tin Shop and Storage, Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Union Wharf Proprietors Use: Tin Shop and Storage
Item 86856
Tin Shop and Storage, Portland Pier, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Proprietors of Portland Pier Use: Tin Shop and Storage
Exhibit
Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland
The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.
Exhibit
In Time and Eternity: Shakers in the Industrial Age
"In Time and Eternity: Maine Shakers in the Industrial Age 1872-1918" is a series of images that depict in detail the Shakers in Maine during a little explored time period of expansion and change.
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - Weatherbee Hardware
"After his law degree, he built his hardware and tin shop in the same building as his law office. In 1900 a contractor built E.A."
Site Page
Surry by the Bay - Surry Village School
"… water, a big water bucket, accompanied by a tin cup, soothed the pupils' throats. By the 1920s a water cooler with a spigot assured the school…"
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
