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Historical Items

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Item 41190

Ladder climb competition at Portland Kiwanis reunion, Scarborough, 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1920-08-07 Location: Scarborough Media: Glass Negative

Item 31240

Hook and ladder at Pickering Square fire, Bangor, 1891

Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: 1891-03-29 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print

Item 9151

Ground ladder truck loaded for transport, Millinocket, ca. 1970

Contributed by: Millinocket Fire Department Date: circa 1970 Location: Millinocket Media: Photographic print

Tax Records

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Item 76391

132 Clark Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Elizabeth E. Conlon Use: Dwelling - Single family

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109678

Hook and Ladder House, Lewiston, 1897

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1897 Location: Lewiston Client: unknown Architect: Coombs, Gibbs and Wilkinson Architects

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Taverns, People, and Scenes

"… bell would ring, the masons come down from the ladders, the joiners drop their tools, and all would partake of rum, salt-fish, and crackers."…"

Exhibit

Most Inconvenient Storm

A Portland newspaper wrote about an ice storm of January 28, 1886 saying, "The city of Portland was visited yesterday by the most inconvenient storm of the season."

Exhibit

Lincoln County through the Eastern Eye

The Penobscot Marine Museum’s photography collections include nearly 50,000 glass plate negatives of images for "real photo" postcards produced by the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast. This exhibit features postcards from Lincoln County.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Lincoln, Maine - Primary school on School Street, Lincoln, ca. 1905

"A man is climbing up a ladder next to the school, and there are many carts and wagons with spectators."

Site Page

Bar Harbor Fire Department

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Site Page

Historic Hallowell - Volunteer Firefighters and their Fire Clothes

"Fire Department Ladder Wagon, Second Street, Hallowell, 1913Hubbard Free Library Volunteer firefighters are always on call whereas career firemen or…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Restoring the Penobscot River
by John Banks

My role as the Director of the Department of Natural Resources for the Penobscot Indian Nation

Story

Childhood Memories of Learning to Swim on Rangeley Lake
by Betty C.

Betty's two older sisters taught her how to swim on Rangeley Lake.

Story

Portland in the 1940s
by Carol Norton Hall

As a young woman in Portland during WWII, the presence of servicemen was life changing.