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Waterville Public Library

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Main and State streets, Presque Isle, 1929

"Main and State streets, Presque Isle, 1929 Contributed by Presque Isle Historical Society Description A band forms at the corner of State…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Corn Canning Industry

"… Farm Products Cooperative, established in 1929 was the last cannery to disappear from Farmington’s landscape in 1969."

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

"… Mono Aircraft Company "Monarch," manufactured in 1929, was owned by H. H. Linn, president of the Linn Tractor Company, Morris, N.Y."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Arts Study Club Program, Farmington, 1930-1931

"The club met without interruption from 1929-1959. An annual program of study was printed with topics and presenters."

The Cedars

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economy on Mt. Desert Island

"… 1898, and the Jackson Laboratory was started in 1929. All are businesses that are still thriving today."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Junior Martin in cadet uniform, Bangor, ca. 1871

"(1857-1929) was one of a group of boys in the Select School in Bangor and a few from the grammar school who formed a cadet company and began in…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Mabelle Martin's casket, Bangor, 1899

"(1857-1929) outlived their parents. John Martin drew this illustration of the scene of Mabelle's coffin in the parlor of the family home and…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin Jr., Bangor, 1865

"(1857-1929) was the third child and first son of John and Clara Cary Martin of Bangor. His father, John Martin (1823-1904), drew him "in his…"

The General Henry Knox Museum

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1920-1930 - Page 2 of 3

"… shortest about 1926-27, and lengthened again by 1929. The new leg-exposing skirt length was a true revolution."

Historic Hallowell - The Opening & Closing of Hallowell's Shoe Companies

"In 1929, it became the Jarnes Hamburger Shoe Company, and then in 1932, it was the Nelson-Weiner Shoe Company."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Founding of Acadia National Park

"Then in 1929 it was renamed Acadia National Park and now protects almost half of Mount Desert Island."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Depression, War, and Fire

"… tax began to cut into its excesses, and the 1929 stock market crash accelerated its decline. It was really World War II that ended the Depression…"

John Bapst Memorial High School

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Running the Town

"In 1929 Bessie Joyce was listed as a member of the Superintending School Committee. It wasn’t until 1962 that another woman, Roberta Joyce, was…"

Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay

"… 1946Surry Historical Society Surry Playhouse 1929-1938/1946-1953 Text by Kate Mrozicki Images contributed by the Surry Historical Society On July…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"… the Hotel Rumford on Exchange Street in November, 1929. This fire resulted in destruction of the two upper stories and damage to the offices…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Old Town Hall and Grant Building

"… building until the current City Hall was built in 1929. The Old City Hall narrowly escaped destruction in the fire of 1894 which destroyed all of…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Andrew Anderson

"… New York and he took a shine to my father. It was 1929- sometime in the summer- and he said to my father, “I imagine you have money in the bank…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 3 of 4

"In 1929 Curtis Wright Corporation built a nearby log cabin intended as a barracks for a summer flight school."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Resources and Links

"Condon, Richard H. “Maine in depression and war, 1929-1945.” In Maine: the Pine Tree State from prehistory to present, edited by Richard W."

Acadia National Park

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