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Historical Items

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Item 27951

Ice House, Bath, ca. 1903

Contributed by: Patten Free Library Date: circa 1903 Location: Bath Media: Cyanotype

Item 31847

Arthur Moore's Ice House, Hallowell, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Hubbard Free Library Date: circa 1940 Location: Hallowell Media: Photographic print

Item 38187

Arthur Moore Ice House, Hallowell, ca. 1934

Contributed by: Hubbard Free Library Date: circa 1934 Location: Hallowell Media: Photographic print

Tax Records

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Item 86344

Ice Cream Plant, Custom House Wharf, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Proprietors of Custom House Wharf Use: Ice Cream Plant

Item 89174

Downes property, East End Avenue Near Ice Pond, Long Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Cynthia A. Downes Use: Summer Dwelling

Item 70946

Ice House, Presumpscot Street (rear), Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Canadian National Railroad Use: Ice House

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 151551

John S. Hyde farmer's cottage, Bath, 1913-1915

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1913–1915 Location: Bath Client: John Sedgwick Hyde Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Student Exhibit: Ice Harvesting

Ice Harvesting was a big industry on the Kennebec River. Several million tons of ice could be harvested in a few weeks. In 1886 the Kennebec River topped the million ton on ice production.

Exhibit

Ice: A Maine Commodity

Maine's frozen rivers and lakes provided an economic opportunity. The state shipped thousands of tons of ice to ports along the East Coast and to the West Indies that workers had cut and packed in sawdust for shipment or later use.

Exhibit

Inside the Yellow House

Photographer Elijah Cobb's 1985 portfolio of the Laura E. Richards House, with text by Rosalind Cobb Wiggins and Laura E. Putnam.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook Arthur Moore's Ice House, Hallowell, ca. 1940 Click on the picture to learn more about Moore's Ice…"

Site Page

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook Arthur Moore's Ice House, Hallowell, ca. 1940Hubbard Free Library Ice houses were a big part of…"

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Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"When summer came around, they would send out the ice to be purchased and put in ice boxes as a source of refrigeration until William Cullen would…"

My Maine Stories

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Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis

The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.

Story

A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down

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History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars