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Historical Items

These results include photographs, documents, letters, paintings, artifacts, and many other kinds of Maine related items from collections around the state and elsewhere.


Item 62848

Ticonic Water Power and Manufacturing Co. document, Waterville, 1866

Contributed by: Waterville Public Library Date: 1866–1874 Location: Waterville Media: Ink on paper

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Item 64400

Boise Cascade strikers, Rumford, 1980

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1980-07-30 Location: Rumford Media: Photographic print

Item 67648

Forest Paper Co. workers, Yarmouth, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Yarmouth Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Yarmouth Media: Photographic print

Item 67659

Forest Paper Co. smokestacks, Yarmouth, ca. 1900

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

Item 67709

Turning logs into lumber, Surry, ca. 1903

Contributed by: Wilbur and Marjorie Saunders through Surry Historical Society Date: circa 1903 Location: Surry Media: Silver print photograph

Item 68458

Medicinal fish oil factory on Johnson Island, Swan's Island, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Swan's Island Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Swan's Island Media: Photographic print

Item 69110

Forster Manufacturing Co., Strong, ca. 1939

Contributed by: Strong Historical Society Date: circa 1939 Location: Strong Media: Photographic print

Item 69115

Starbird Lumber Co. mill crew, Strong, ca. 1957

Contributed by: Strong Historical Society Date: circa 1957 Location: Strong Media: Photographic print

Item 69705

Unloading rags, Eastern Manufacturing, Brewer, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Folklife Center, Univ. of Maine Date: circa 1920 Location: Brewer Media: Photographic print

Item 70171

Royal Lace Paper workers, Brooklyn, N.Y., ca. 1951

Contributed by: Maine Folklife Center, Univ. of Maine Date: circa 1951 Location: Brooklyn Media: Photographic print

Item 70278

Eastern Paper Finish Department workers, Brewer, 1942

Contributed by: Maine Folklife Center, Univ. of Maine Date: 1942 Location: Brewer Media: Photographic print

Item 70279

Women sorters at Eastern Fine Paper, Brewer, ca. 1960

Contributed by: Maine Folklife Center, Univ. of Maine Date: circa 1960 Location: Brewer Media: Photographic print

Item 70280

Women sorting rags, Brewer, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Folklife Center, Univ. of Maine Date: circa 1920 Location: Brewer Media: Photographic print

Mystery Corner Item

Item 70281

Women cutting rags, Eastern Fine Paper, Brewer, ca. 1920

Mystery Corner Item Do you know these Eastern Fine Paper workers?

Contributed by: Maine Folklife Center, Univ. of Maine Date: circa 1920 Location: Brewer Media: Photographic print

Item 74747

Forest Avenue substation, Portland, ca. 1917

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1917 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 74751

Electric workers labor agreement, Portland, 1917

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1917 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

Item 74770

'Maine Produces' button, ca. 1980

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1980 Media: Metal, celluloid

Item 75135

Office workers at Eastern, Brewer, ca. 1938

Contributed by: Maine Folklife Center, Univ. of Maine Date: 1938 Location: Brewer Media: Photographic print

Item 75139

Want ad for female truck drivers, Brewer, ca. 1943

Contributed by: Maine Folklife Center, Univ. of Maine Date: circa 1943 Location: Brewer Media: Newspaper

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Item 75146

Pulp wood moving from pond to wood pile, Brewer, ca. 1950, ca. 1950

Contributed by: Maine Folklife Center, Univ. of Maine Date: circa 1950 Location: Brewer Media: Photographic print

Item 75152

A woman in the Eastern Fine Paper lab, Brewer, 2006

Contributed by: Maine Folklife Center, Univ. of Maine Date: 1967 Location: Brewer Media: Compact disc

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Item 75470

Employee benefits at Eastern mill, Brewer, ca. 2006

Contributed by: Maine Folklife Center, Univ. of Maine Date: 1949–2004 Location: Brewer Media: Compact disc

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Item 78766

Aerial view of slate quarry, Monson, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Monson Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Monson Media: Photographic print

Item 78920

Construction of B Machine at Oxford Paper Company, Rumford, 1915

Contributed by: Greater Rumford Area Historical Society Date: 1915-05-18 Location: Rumford Media: Photographic print