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Historical Items

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Item 8914

Four-wheel drive truck with Sargent snowplow, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Portland Media: Photoprint

Item 8915

Four-wheel drive truck, Portland, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Portland Media: Photoprint

Item 9043

Skowhegan Wheel Club, 1894

Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: 1894 Location: Skowhegan; Skowhegan Media: Photographic print

Tax Records

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Item 76898

28 St. Lawrence Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Arthur A. Griggs Use: Dwelling - Four Family

Item 99037

Assessor's Record, 1929-2013 Forest Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Riverton Realty Company Use: Ferris Wheel

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 150400

Bates Mill Buildings, Lewiston, 1900-1902

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1900–1902 Location: Lewiston Client: Bates Mill Architect: George M. Coombs; Coombs and Gibbs Architects

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

A Craze for Cycling

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

Taber Wagon

The Taber farm wagon was an innovative design that was popular on New England farms. It made lifting potato barrels onto a wagon easier and made more efficient use of the horse's work. These images glimpse the life work of its inventor, Silas W. Taber of Houlton, and the place of his invention in the farming community

Exhibit

Music in Maine - Country Music

"in Wheeling, West Virginia. Dick Curless started wearing an eye patch in the mid-1960s on his right eye because of deteriorating vision, and it…"

Site Pages

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - They Should Have Constructed Their Buildings On Wheels

"They Should Have Constructed Their Buildings On Wheels Land and Natural Resource Use and Development Patterns of the Savage Family in Northeast…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Jasper Beckwith Spraying Potatoes, Presque Isle, 1940

"… a type of sprayer that appears to power the pump off the wheels. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Mono Aircraft Company, Presque Isle, 1935

"The boy standing by the front wheel is six-year-old Gary M. Boone of Presque Isle. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Passing the time during the Pandemic
by Don V

Building a strip canoe

Story

Choosing a Career in Country and Bluegrass Music
by Ken Brooks

How I became a country and bluegrass musician

Story

Aroostook Potato Harvest: Perspective of a Six Year Old
by Phyllis A. Blackstone

A child's memory of potato harvest in the 1950s