Keywords: newspaper carriers
Item 11853
Bangor Daily News at the Capitol, 1962
Contributed by: Margaret Chase Smith Library Date: 1962-04-10 Location: Washington; Bangor Media: Photographic print
Item 27931
Cyclist and mail carrier, Portland, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Success at riding a bike mirrored success in life. Bicycling could bring families together. Bicycling was good for one's health. Bicycling was fun. Bicycles could go fast. Such were some of the arguments made to induce many thousands of people around Maine and the nation to take up the new pastime at the end of the nineteenth century.
Exhibit
Christmas, a Christian holiday observed by many Mainers, has a very public, seasonal face that makes it visible to those of all beliefs.
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Island Postmistresses
"… for the compensation of the postmaster and mail carrier The pay was so small that great difficulty was experienced in getting a mail carrier and it…"
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War
"… was a farmer and East North Yarmouth's first mail carrier at the turn of the century. His daughter Charlotte became a schoolteacher and taught for…"
