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Item 61117

Roves, Popham Colony, ca. 1607

Roves, Popham Colony, ca. 1607

Contributed by: Maine State Museum Date: circa 1607 Location: Phippsburg Media: Iron

Item 9819

Margaret Chase Smith on the Championship team, 1916

Margaret Chase Smith on the Championship team, 1916

Contributed by: Margaret Chase Smith Library Date: 1916 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print

Item 25730

Main Street, East Wilton, ca. 1915

Main Street, East Wilton, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1915 Location: Wilton Media: Glass Negative

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Raleigh Gilbert, Popham Colony, ca. 1607

Popham Colony

George Popham and a group of fellow Englishmen arrived at the mouth of the Kennebec River, hoping to trade with Native Americans, find gold and other valuable minerals, and discover a Northwest passage. In 18 months, the fledgling colony was gone.

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Main Street, Bar Harbor, ca. 1910

Maine Streets: The Postcard View

Photographers from the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co. of Belfast traveled throughout the state, especially in small communities, taking images for postcards. Many of these images, taken in the first three decades of the twentieth century, capture Main Streets on the brink of modernity.

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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.