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John Martin: Expert Observer - Thomas White Dry Good Emporium, Bangor, 1864

"The store pictured in the middle was a wholesale business. The north and south stores were for retail sales."

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Brick Store Museum

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Rufus Prince's factory and store, Bangor, 1864

"The store also included dry goods. When he was about 21, John Martin (1823-1904) began working for Prince as a bookkeeper and store tender."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Expands - 1805 to 1846

"… in a granite building, joined several small dry goods stores. Several businessmen joined together to build the brick Union Block, each constructing…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1850 to 1870

"Dry goods stores and specialty shops were in great number and merchants did a brisk business. After an initial drop in census numbers to 3600 in…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Pendleton & Ross stand, Bangor, 1864

"… in the city built of wood and were filled with dry goods groceries Rum hard ware fish salt &c." He noted that in November 1865, the building was…"

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1890-1900 - Page 1 of 3

"… Libby's in Portland, and in small town dry-goods stores. Reasonably priced plain skirts, jackets, and blouses that became the norm for the working…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"Palmer Dry Goods (1868-1876) William P. Hill Dry Goods (1876-1883) Webber’s Drugstore (1883-1933) Burnham’s Auto Supply (1933-1953) Fullerton’s Radio…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - The History of Laundry, Aroostook County Style - Page 2 of 2

"This process took a good portion of the day. Drying took all day. Only when the clothes were dry, did the ironing take place."

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"… fact that the subject matter was more or less a dry repetition of material covered in the lower grades."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Ledyard Block

"… he had the Ledyard Block built, he had a dry goods store on the same lot. William Ledyard was married to Miss Harriet Ledyard."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"Zeltin. Georgia Tracey’s dry goods store sold clothing, fabric, stockings, and more. There was a barber shop operated by Lyman Haskell and a fish…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"The furs are hung and dried, then sent to Bangor where they tan the pelts. Mrs. Lewis, a woman who owns the little store down the street, is bidding…"

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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 2 of 5

"… hose house had high towers for hanging hose to dry and a large stove to heat. Upstairs in the house there was a room for the meetings to be held…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"All the rescued goods were stored in the nearby Methodist Church, while the store was rebuilt. Today a portion of that building makes up part of…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 2 of 3

"… had four groceries, one fruit stand, two dry goods stores, four stables, three blacksmiths, three building contractors, three plumbers, one masonry…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"… brew, women draped the long strands over lines to dry in the island breeze, creating colorful curtains of blue, red, and green."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5

"… the town with valuable shops, meeting spaces, dry goods stores and a barber shop. The Tuscan Opera House was built in 1891."

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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… lists five Surry merchants and dealers selling dry and fancy goods, boots, crockery, paints, groceries, confectionery, etc."

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Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"… the Surry citizens whose community was as tinder dry as Mount Desert Island. Fortunately Surry had no major problems, but the citizens who had been…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"… who caught the fish, the processors who dried, salted or otherwise preserved the fish, and the suppliers who shipped the product to market."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… one of the beef critters, and hung the flax to dry. Shortly afterward a fire broke out, apparently something near the flax causing the fire, and…"

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Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"The mills dried themselves off and were going full tilt once again, a $20 million state-of-the-art yarn manufacturing facility was planned by…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"One side of Lowell's was devoted to dry goods such as: overalls, Aunt Lydia’s carpet thread, bolts of cloth, lamp chimneys, medicines and tooth…"