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Title: Unloading rags, Eastern Manufacturing, Brewer, ca.1920

Contributed by: Maine Folklife Center, Univ. of Maine

Date: circa 1920

Location: Brewer

Media: Photgraph

Title: Drawing of Eastern Fine Paper, Brewer, 1921

Contributed by: Maine Folklife Center, Univ. of Maine

Date: 1921

Location: Brewer

Media: Drawing

Title: Bobsled, Eastern Manufacturing Co.

Contributed by: City of Brewer

Date: circa 1921

Location: Brewer

Media: Photograph

Address: 325-363 Eastern Promenade, Portland

Use: Railroad - Station

Address: 17-19 Douglass Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Eastern Real Estate Co.

Use: Dwelling - Two family

Eastern Fine Paper

The paper mill on the Penobscot River in South Brewer, which became known as Eastern Fine Paper Co., began as a sawmill in 1884 and grew over the years as an important part of the economy of the region and a large presence in the landscape. Its closing in 2005 affected more than the men and women who lost their jobs.

Maine Streets: The Postcard View

Photographers from the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co. of Belfast traveled throughout the state, especially in small communities, taking images for postcards. Many of these images, taken in the first three decades of the twentieth century, capture Main Streets on the brink of modernity.

Powering Pejepscot Paper Co.

In 1893, F.C. Whitehouse of Topsham, who owned paper mills in Topsham and Lisbon Falls, began construction of a third mill on the eastern banks of the Androscoggin River five miles north of Topsham. First, he had to build a dam to harness the river's power.