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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - East New Portland Village

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - East New Portland Village

"… blacksmiths, insurance, a canning factory, tin, steel and iron-worker, boot and shoe maker(2),carpenter, physician and surgeon, fruit grower…"

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Aerial view looking toward Lubec, ca. 1950

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"Tin plates came to the shop, undecorated ones for tops and bottoms, lithographed ones for the sides with the company name and brand."

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Knickerbocker Express, ca. 1938

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"… at Tin Bridge, Bangor, 1871Bangor Public Library Tin Bridge Wreck The Tin Bridge collapsed under the weight of an express mail train on August 9…"

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Bangor from the east bank of the Penobscot River, ca. 1905

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 2 of 2

"Web. Tin Bridge Wreck Bangor Daily Whig and Courier (Newspaper) August 10, 1871. Bangor Public Library. Microfilm."

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Scholar's Report Book cover, Surry, 1937 - 1938

Surry by the Bay - Surry Village School

"… water, a big water bucket, accompanied by a tin cup, soothed the pupils' throats. By the 1920s a water cooler with a spigot assured the school…"

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Fairbanks Building on fire, Bangor, 1911

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"It was so light when we got [to] the tin bridge that we didn't need head lights and when struck there the flames looked miles high in front of us and…"