Keywords: Truss Bridges
Item 81164
Old Iron Bridge, Bridge St., Westbrook, ca. 1880
Contributed by: Walker Memorial Library Date: circa 1880 Location: Westbrook Media: Photographic print
Item 71778
Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1939 Location: Southport Media: Linen texture postcard
Item 150606
Plan of Trusses Hawthorn Hall, Bates College, Lewiston, 1897-1904
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1897–1904 Location: Lewiston Client: Bates College Architect: Coombs, Gibbs and Wilkinson Architects
Exhibit
Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye
The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.
Exhibit
Summer Folk: The Postcard View
Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."
Site Page
New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of East New Portland
"This bridge was replaced with a two-span concrete T-beam bridge constructed in 1936 by the Maine State Highway Commission."
Site Page
New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of West New Portland
"It replaced a boxed timber pony truss. Photo records indicate that this old bridge was damaged in 1926, when the weight of a truck caused the floor…"
