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Item 6058

Gravel road by the Ossipee River in Cornish, 1937

Contributed by: Maine State Archives Date: 1937 Location: Cornish Media: Silver Print Photograph

Item 82391

Civilian Conservation Corps gravel pit at Mt. Bigelow, Flagstaff, ca. 1935

Contributed by: Maine Conservation Corps Date: circa 1935 Location: Flagstaff Media: Photographic print

Item 9445

Horse-drawn school teams, Caribou, ca. 1928

Contributed by: Caribou Public Library Date: circa 1928 Location: Caribou Media: Postcard

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 149102

Northeast Harbor Fleet planting plan, Northeast Harbor, 1993-1994

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1993–1994 Location: Mount Desert Client: Northeast Harbor Fleet Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates

Item 149151

Nannau Seaside Bed and Breakfast elevations, Bar Harbor, 1991

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1991 Location: Bar Harbor Clients: Ron Evers; Vikki Evers Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates

Item 149125

Butler Capital Corporation conference center plan, Frenchboro, 1986-2001

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1986–2001 Location: Frenchboro Clients: Gilbert Butler; Butler Capital Corporation Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates

Online Exhibits

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Writing on the board, North School, Portland, ca. 1915

Back to School

Public education has been a part of Maine since Euro-American settlement began to stabilize in the early eighteenth century. But not until the end of the nineteenth century was public education really compulsory in Maine.

Exhibit

"Chops and Tomato Sauce" as prepared for Samuel Pickwick, ca. 1890

Sugar and Spice: Our Vintage Recipes

Sugar and Spice: Our Vintage Recipes showcases historic recipes, dating from the 18th century to the 1950s, like sweet treats, traditional favorites, promotional printings, medicinal concoctions, curious libations, and recipes that have fallen out of favor.

Exhibit

Umbazooksus & Beyond

Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.

Site Pages

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Maternity, Hallowell Granite Works, ca. 1895

Historic Hallowell - Timeline of Cyclone

"Timbers, bricks, gravel, and tarred paper began to ﬂy around his head as Brown ran to the other end of the mill."

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Lt. John R. Andrews, Biddeford, ca. 1861

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 3 of 3

"… them for use, and in removing loom from the gravel pit and spreading it upon the waste land near by, and such other work as we could procure for…"

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Guilford Woolen Mill Finishing Room Crew, ca, 1890

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"… through the windows, carrying tons of coal and gravel, packing the boiler room and dye house to a depth of three feet, and destroying dye tubs and…"