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Historical Items

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Item 105885

Damariscotta Mills, Damariscotta, ca. 1925

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1925 Location: Damariscotta Media: Glass Plate Negative

Item 105889

Fiske House, Damariscotta, ca. 1925

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1925 Location: Damariscotta Media: Glass Plate Negative

Item 25751

Main Street, Cranberry Island, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1910 Location: Cranberry Isles Media: Glass Negative

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Lincoln County through the Eastern Eye

The Penobscot Marine Museum’s photography collections include nearly 50,000 glass plate negatives of images for "real photo" postcards produced by the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast. This exhibit features postcards from Lincoln County.

Exhibit

Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye

The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.

Exhibit

Washington County Through Eastern's Eye

Images taken by itinerant photographers for Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company, a real photo postcard company, provide a unique look at industry, commerce, recreation, tourism, and the communities of Washington County in the early decades of the twentieth century.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Historic Hallowell - Schooners, Steamers, Ships and Tankers

"1890Hubbard Free Library The Zebedee E. Cliff was a schooner that had competition from steam-powered freighters during the Great Depression."

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"… open hostility again in 1690 when the French in eastern Maine joined forces with the Indians and destroyed the settlement of Falmouth."

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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"The men who built the ships were paid only for the days that they worked. If one of the men needed a rowboat to go to his home at Morgan's Bay or…"