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Historical Items

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Item 66255

Waterfront Park, Bar Harbor, ca. 1935

Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1935 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Linen texture postcard

Item 19211

Waterfront Park in Bar Harbor, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1930 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard

Item 83295

East Boothbay waterfront, 1899

Contributed by: Boothbay Region Historical Society Date: 1899 Location: East Boothbay Media: Photographic print

Tax Records

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Item 37388

393-419 Park Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Portland Terminal Co. Use: Section House

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Designing Acadia

For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.

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 Pages

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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Waterfront - Page 1 of 2

"So in time, the waterfront was used less and less. Now the waterfront is only used for recreational fun and pleasure."

Site Page

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"… brass stays. It shows the ancient town, with its waterfront and cathedrals, its quaint German architecture and sharp-roofed houses, its odd-looking…"

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… of factories that would eventually line Lubec’s waterfront. Soon thereafter E.W. Brown and Company built the first factory on Water Street."

My Maine Stories

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Story

An enjoyable conference, Portland 2021
by John C. Decker, Danville, Pennsylvania

Some snippets from a 4-day conference by transportation historians in Portland, September 7-11, 2021

Story

Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis

The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.