Keywords: telephone
Item 18054
Contributed by: Telephone Museum Date: 1912-09-10 Location: Lewiston; Ellsworth Media: Photographic print
Item 14619
Fort Kent Telephone Company switchboard, ca. 1895
Contributed by: Fort Kent Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Fort Kent Media: Wood, metal
Item 54058
41-47 Forest Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: New England Telephone Company Use: Office & Telephone Exchange
Item 54059
Assessor's Record, 41-47 Forest Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: New England Telephone Company Use: Office & Telephone Exchange
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The small town of Andover landed on the international map in 1962 when the Earth Station that had been built there successfully communicated with Telstar, the first telecommunications satellite.
Exhibit
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."
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Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones
"The telephone is very useful to the town of Lincoln. If it never existed, then we would probably still have a town caller and would still be writing…"
Story
Working as a telephone operator in the 1940s
by Doris Tardy
Working as a telephone operator in 1946 was new and exciting, and challenging.
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Sarah Jane Poli: Biddeford’s first female school superintendent
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
An Italian immigrant's daughter is key to a family grocery store and a leader in the school system
