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Historical Items

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Item 26140

Cutting sheds, Benvenue Granite Co., Stonington, ca. 1912

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1912 Location: Stonington Media: Postcard

Item 19450

Half Rounds and Wedges, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Granite Industry Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Mount Desert Media: Metal

Item 17200

Merrill Quarry, Crotch Island, Stonington, 1887

Contributed by: Maine Granite Industry Historical Society Date: 1887 Location: Stonington Media: Cabinet photograph

Tax Records

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Item 56702

18 Granite Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Lincoln Conley Use: Dwelling - Single family

Item 56701

18-20 Granite Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Abbie C. Payne Use: Dwelling - Single family

Item 56703

41-45 Granite Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Frederick Z. Butterfield Use: Dwelling - Single family

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109811

Block for Murphy Bros., Lewiston, 1894

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1894 Location: Lewiston; Lewiston Client: Murphy Brothers Architect: George M. Coombs

Item 111982

Winthrop Library, Winthrop, 1916

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1916 Location: Winthrop Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Promoting Rockland Through a Stereopticon, 1875

Frank Crockett and photographer J.P. Armbrust took stereo views of Rockland's downtown, industry, and notable homes in the 1870s as a way to promote tourism to the town.

Exhibit

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.

Exhibit

Laboring in Maine

Workers in Maine have labored in factories, on farms, in the woods, on the water, among other locales. Many of Maine's occupations have been determined by the state's climate and geographical features.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Bath's Historic Downtown - Columbian Block

"Galen Moses and friends, Bath, ca. 1890Patten Free Library Some of the key people that were associated with the Columbian Block at 168 through 194…"

Site Page

Bath's Historic Downtown - Lincoln Block

"It became known as the Lincoln Block in 1895, when the Lincoln Bank absorbed the Sagadahock Bank. The Lincoln Block building was designed by…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Bath Savings Institution and Hyde Block

"He designed Hyde Block. Francis Fassett also built the Sagadohoc County Courthouse. Henry Swanton was the president of Bath Savings for many years."

My Maine Stories

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Story

Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis

The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.