Maine Memory Network

West New Portland Village, ca. 1905

Contributed by: Stanley Museum Date: circa 1905 Location: New Portland Media: Photographic print

Benjamin Randall Store, Pownal, ca. 1895

Contributed by: Pownal Scenic and Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Pownal Media: Photographic print

Maine Streets: The Postcard View

Photographers from the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co. of Belfast traveled throughout the state, especially in small communities, taking images for postcards. Many of these images, taken in the first three decades of the twentieth century, capture Main Streets on the brink of modernity.

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.

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"The area of modern Maine was the crossroads of English and French North America, and all the old hatreds and arguments crossed from the Old World…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… of Dunn's Corner is Crockett's Corner, a quiet crossroads that was another early North Yarmouth settlement."