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The bridge over the "Gut" in South Bristol, 1996

Contributed by: South Bristol Historical Society

Date: 1996

Location: South Bristol

Media: Photographic print

An early bridge across "The Gut", South Bristol, ca. 1900

Contributed by: South Bristol Historical Society

Date: circa 1900

Location: South Bristol

Media: Photographic print

Steel draw bridge over the "Gut," South Bristol, ca. 1926

Contributed by: South Bristol Historical Society

Date: circa 1926

Location: South Bristol

Media: Photographic print

A Town Is Born: South Bristol, 1915

After being part of the town of Bristol for nearly 150 years, residents of South Bristol determined that their interests would be better served by becoming a separate town and they broke away from the large community of Bristol.

Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador

"The Bowdoin Boys" -- some students and recent graduates -- traveled to Labrador in 1891 to collect artifacts, specimens, and to try to find Grand Falls, a waterfall deep in Labrador's interior.

In Time and Eternity: Shakers in the Industrial Age

"In Time and Eternity: Maine Shakers in the Industrial Age 1872-1918" is a series of images that depict in detail the Shakers in Maine during a little explored time period of expansion and change.

South Bristol Historical Society

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Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 3 of 4

… working in the Shed did everything: skinning, gutting, boxing and weighing, from start to finish.

Guilford, Maine - Guilford Schools

… Society Unfortunately, fire struck again as it gutted the High School on April 4, 1925. The citizens of Guilford yet again displayed their…

Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by

by Randy Randall

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