Search Results

Keywords: watch repair

Historical Items

View All Showing 2 of 6 Showing 3 of 6

Item 14020

Watchmaker and Jeweler advertisement, Houlton, 1895

Contributed by: Cary Library Date: 1895 Location: Houlton Media: Ink on paper

Item 13674

E. B. White advertisement, Houton, 1900

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1900 Location: Houlton Media: Ink on paper

Item 34752

Will Brown as a young man, Lincoln, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Lincoln Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Lincoln Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

View All Showing 2 of 11 Showing 3 of 11

Exhibit

The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History

After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner <em>Bowdoin,</em> which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.

Exhibit

The Swinging Bridge: Walking Across the Androscoggin

Built in 1892 to entice workers at the Cabot Manufacturing Corporation in Brunswick to move to newly built housing in Topsham, the Androscoggin Pedestrian "Swinging" Bridge or Le Petit Pont quickly became important to many people traveling between the two communities.

Exhibit

Great Cranberry Island's Preble House

The Preble House, built in 1827 on a hilltop over Preble Cove on Great Cranberry Island, was the home to several generations of Hadlock, Preble, and Spurling family members -- and featured in several books.

Site Pages

View All Showing 2 of 5 Showing 3 of 5

Site Page

Lincoln, Maine - W.A. Brown: Jack of all trades

"Here, he was involved in jewelry sales, watch repair, optical work, and was a Ford dealer from 1910 to 1928 on Mechanic Street."

Site Page

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 4 of 5

"It needed painting, new gutters, roof repairs, basement windows and other miscellaneous repairs. The main entrance was moved from the front to the…"

Site Page

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"… and presented him with a massive solid silver watch-chain, as a small token of their appreciation of him as a man and master workman."

My Maine Stories

View All Showing 2 of 3 Showing 3 of 3

Story

Learning to fly and instructing cadets at West Point during WWII
by Vera Cleaves

West Point during World War II

Story

Service in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan by MAJ Adam R. Cote
by Adam R. Cote

Military Service has had a deep impact my life

Story

My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne

Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima