Keywords: grocery markets
Item 16057
Iandoli brand potato bag, Houlton, ca. 1960
Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1960 Location: Houlton Media: Paper
Item 98486
Doris and Paul Holmes, Holmes' Market, Main Street, Dixfield, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Dixfield Historical Society Date: circa 1950 Location: Dixfield Media: Photographic print
Item 76265
119-123 Spring Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Samuel B. Thombs Use: Garage
Item 37309
157-163 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: H.S. Melcher Company Use: Store
Exhibit
Promoting Rockland Through a Stereopticon, 1875
Frank Crockett and photographer J.P. Armbrust took stereo views of Rockland's downtown, industry, and notable homes in the 1870s as a way to promote tourism to the town.
Exhibit
Maine's Untold Vegetarian History
Vegetarianism has deep roots in Maine and this first-of-its-kind exhibition explores this untold story.
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Eddie's Market
"… his own store, Eddie’s IGA, which had a line of groceries and meats and free delivery. The store was sixteen feet by twenty-four feet and had two…"
Site Page
"There was another meat market and grocery store owned by Merritt Ober. Above the store, Miss Coburn operated a beauty shop that catered to the…"
Story
Norman Sevigny: history of a neighborhood grocery store
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
Growing up in a Franco-American community and working in the family business, Sevigny’s Market
Story
Sarah Jane Poli: Biddeford’s first female school superintendent
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
An Italian immigrant's daughter is key to a family grocery store and a leader in the school system
