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Historical Items

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Item 17579

Cleaning up, Lobster Lake, 1909

Contributed by: An individual through Maine Historical Society Date: 1909 Media: Photographic print

Item 34047

Ice harvesting, Cascade Pond, Hallowell, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Emma Clark Weeks through Hubbard Free Library Date: circa 1930 Location: Hallowell Media: Photographic print

Item 101379

Cleaning fish, Monhegan, ca. 1880

Contributed by: Monhegan Museum Date: circa 1880 Location: Monhegan Media: Photographic print

Tax Records

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Item 54934

Assessor's Record, 799 Forest Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Ernest E. Clark Use: Storage & Carpet Cleaning

Item 60048

125-127 Lancaster Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Louis M. Christiansen Use: Shop - Carpet Cleaning

Item 83072

Assessor's Record, 877 Washington Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Elizabeth J. Hutchinson Use: Storage & Carpet Cleaning

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Clean Water: Muskie and the Environment

Maine Senator Edmund S. Muskie earned the nickname "Mr. Clean" for his environment efforts during his tenure in Congress from 1959 to 1980. He helped created a political coalition that passed important clean air and clean water legislation, drawing on his roots in Maine.

Exhibit

We Saw Lindbergh!

Following his historic flight across the Atlantic in May 1927, aviator Charles Lindbergh commenced a tour across America, greeted by cheering crowds at every stop. He was a day late for his speaking engagement in Portland, due to foggy conditions. Elise Fellows White wrote in her diary about seeing Lindbergh and his plane.

Exhibit

Cooks and Cookees: Lumber Camp Legends

Stories and tall tales abound concerning cooks and cookees -- important persons in any lumber camp, large or small.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Historic Hallowell - Days 6 & 7

"The clean up will cost around 1 million dollars. The state starts the clean up of 1 million dollars."

Site Page

Historic Hallowell - Cyclone Poems

"… Fixing the city Bring in a supply everyone helps clean up rebuild repair soon Cyclones, Storms, and Fixing the City by Gabby Horse A stable maybe I…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - The History of Laundry, Aroostook County Style - Page 1 of 2

"… bring the tub down to these sources of water and clean the laundry there. Some preferred to use buckets to bring the water to the tub."

My Maine Stories

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Story

Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall

Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.

Story

I never thought I would work at a paper mill.
by Greg Bizier

I love science and managed the lab for International Paper's Otis Mill for 31 years.

Story

Finding and cooking fiddleheads with my parents
by Brian J. Theriault

My father has been picking and eating fiddleheads almost all his life, Mom prepares and stores them