Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Maine Special potato bag, Presque Isle, c. 1950

"In the 1940s potato farmers started packaging their potatoes in distinctive bags. The wide variety of bags illustrates the strong interest in…"

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 2 of 2

"1958: Eastern Manufacturing merges with Standard Packaging Corporation, becoming Eastern Fine Paper & Pulp Division, Standard Packaging Corporation."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 13 of 17

"Local women teamed up to create care packages and letters to Biddeford and Saco Soldiers. On behalf of the women of Biddeford, the Union and Journal…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 4 of 4

"… products for schools and offices, as well as packaging and paperboard. On June 29th, 1999 The Mead Corp."

Historic Hallowell - Henry Pope Clearwater Ph.D.~ Patient Medicine Mass Marketer

"The volume of packages and circular letters sent from his Water Street location necessitated the construction of a new Post Office in Hallowell."

Historic Hallowell - Values and Charity

"… Seaman’s Relief Society in 1848 forwarded relief packages to the Colored Seaman’s Home in New York and placed the following in its Annual Report…"

Guilford, Maine - MANUFACTURING - Page 1 of 2

"Pieces were sorted for quality, then packaged, and sent to sale departments. “Prides was definitely a fast-paced mill,” said Darius Desmarais, an…"

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… Eastern Fine Paper and Pulp Division of Standard Packaging Corporation. The history of mills in Lincoln can be traced back to 1825 to a then…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"… for the Lubec Herald reported on “a huge express package which contained a magnificent engraving of Lübeck, Germany, in the Sixteenth Century."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Maps

"… to be viewed in Google Earth, a free software package that allows you to zoom in or zoom out and see the world in a 3-D environment."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 4 of 4

"… receiving and processing, pellet production, packaging and distribution. They also help to support another 50 jobs in forest harvesting and…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4

"… Company, coat both sides, then cut to sheet size, package, and ship to the customer. Expansion was needed, such that 12 coaters were in operation…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"… batch was sold at two sticks for a penny and packaged twenty pieces to a box. Curtis later went door-to-door in Portland looking for merchants to…"

Pejepscot Historical Society

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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