Keywords: milk bottle
Item 16573
Hayward Farms Milk Bottle, Houlton, ca. 1940
Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1940 Location: Houlton Media: Glass
Item 23454
Milk delivery sleigh, Biddeford, ca. 1895
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1895 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
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
Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland
The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.
Site Page
Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture
"… and a large herd of cattle.” Titcomb Syrup Bottle The Titcomb Family made maple syrup for over 200 years."
Site Page
Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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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
