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Keywords: 1926
Historical Items Showing 3 of 273 View All
Item 18349
Title: Miss Maine, 1926
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media
Date: 1926
Location: Portland; Calais
Media: Glass negative
Item 12857
Title: Salvage Shop, Portland, 1926
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1926
Location: Portland
Media: Photographic print
Item 20317
Title: Mail truck, Portland, 1926
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media
Date: 1926
Location: Portland
Media: Photograph
Tax Records Showing 3 of 3 View All
Item 32108
Item 33101
Address: 93-99 Bancroft Street, Portland
Owner in 1924: Hancock Realty Company
Use: Dwelling - Single family
Item 35937
Address: 33-37 Casco Street, Portland
Owner in 1924: Fannie B. Weislander
Use: Dwelling - Apartments & Stores
Exhibits Showing 3 of 80 View All
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Scientist, author and explorer Donald B. MacMillan established Wiscasset as his homeport for many of the voyages he made to the Arctic region starting in the early 1920s.
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Mainers began propagating fish to stock ponds and lakes in the mid 19th century. The state got into the business in the latter part of the century, first concentrating on Atlantic salmon, then moving into raising other species for stocking rivers, lakes, and ponds.
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Maine's corn canning industry, as illuminated by the career of George S. Jewett, prospered between 1850 and 1950.
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Site
Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870
A history of Maine's Swedish Colony in Aroostook County. Project partners include Caribou Public Library, Maine Swedish Colony, New Sweden School, New Sweden Historical Society, Nylander Museum, and Stockholm Historical Society. In addition to a substantive history of the Colony generally, exhibit topics cover specific family histories, Olof Nylander, mills and homes in Stockholm, hand tools, railroads, and more.
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The history of a long-time mill town as depicted by seventh and eighth grade students at Mattanawcook Junior High School, with help from Lincoln Historical Society and Lincoln Memorial Library. The site includes exhibits on the paper industry, founding fathers, wartime Lincoln, Main Street, influential institutions, and communication and transportation.