Keywords: automobile repair
Item 36393
Owen Magnetic automobile, Lubec, ca. 1916, ca. 1916
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1916 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print
Item 28713
Temporary repairs to the Locomobile Steamer, ca. 1911
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1911 Media: Photographic print
Item 36853
99 Clark Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Enoch C Richards Use: Garage
Item 76827
334-360 St. John Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Portland Terminal Company Use: Blacksmith Shop
Item 150624
Garage for Imperial Automobile Repair Co., Skowhegan, 1914
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1914 Location: Skowhegan Client: Imperial Automobile Repair Co. Architect: Harry S. Coombs
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."
Exhibit
Remembering Mellie Dunham: Snowshoe Maker and Fiddler
Alanson Mellen "Mellie" Dunham and his wife Emma "Gram" Dunham were well-known musicians throughout Maine and the nation in the early decades of the 20th century. Mellie Dunham also received fame as a snowshoe maker.
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 4 of 4
"It was a 1905 Rambler. As more people acquired automobiles, the increase in the number of automobiles on the road brought an increase in the number…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington
"Until the automobile in the early 1900s, roads and businesses were suited for people on foot, carriage, or railroad."
