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Historical Items

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Item 36783

Waterfront, Lubec, ca. 1925, ca. 1925

Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1925 Location: Lubec Media: Postcard

Item 12757

Waterfront, Brooklin, ca. 1923

Contributed by: Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society Date: circa 1923 Location: Brooklin Media: Photo transparency

Item 31751

Boats on Saco River, ca. 1917

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1917 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Working Women of the Old Port

Women at the turn of the 20th century were increasingly involved in paid work outside the home. For wage-earning women in the Old Port section of Portland, the jobs ranged from canning fish and vegetables to setting type. A study done in 1907 found many women did not earn living wages.

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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.

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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.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Along the Waterfront

"The most common themes were information about ships in harbor, what the longshoremen were working on, and notable large fish that were caught."

Site Page

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 1 of 4

"… the one of the most significant and long-lasting waterfront industries in Downeast Maine. Looking into McCurdy’s in 1986. Jacob B."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Lime Works

"… the bank of the river, just upriver of where the Waterfront Market on Wadsworth Street now stands. Knox’s wastebook is riddled with references to…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Maine and the Atlantic World Slave Economy
by Seth Goldstein

How Maine's historic industries are tied to slavery

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.