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Item 9184

Stuart W. Goodwin insurance advertisement, 1942

Contributed by: Norway Historical Society Date: 1942 Location: Norway Media: Ink on paper

Item 149018

General offices of the Union Mutual Insurance Company, Portland, ca. 1880

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1880 Location: Portland Media: Stereograph

Item 101438

National Insurance Co. advertising blotter, Bangor, ca. 1871

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Date: circa 1871 Location: Bangor Media: Lithograph

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Online Exhibits

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Riverside Hotel, at Popham Beach, Phippsburg, ca. 1910

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.

Exhibit

Civil Defense: Fear and Safety

In the 1950s and the 1960s, Maine's Civil Defense effort focused on preparedness for hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters and a more global concern, nuclear war. Civil Defense materials urged awareness, along with measures like storing food and other staple items and preparing underground or other shelters.

Exhibit

Pepperell Manufacturing fire insurance map, 1929

Biddeford, Saco and the Textile Industry

The largest textile factory in the country reached seven stories up on the banks of the Saco River in 1825, ushering in more than a century of making cloth in Biddeford and Saco. Along with the industry came larger populations and commercial, retail, social, and cultural growth.

Site Pages

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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"… was about a $30,000 loss, partly recovered by insurance. The Columbian Hall, built about 1875 was lost in the first fire and it's loss was greatly…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… as a musician and composer is the thing that insures his memory. He composed some pieces and published a collection of music known as the “Harmony…"