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Historical Items

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Item 6026

Ayer, Houston and Co., Portland, ca. 1893

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1893 Location: Portland; Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 12363

Chapel of Our Savior, Brunswick

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: 1887–2005 Location: Brunswick Media: Photograph, print

Item 19146

Fire lookout tower, West Kennebago Mountain, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Forest Service Date: circa 1920 Location: T4 R4 WBKP Media: Photographic print

Tax Records

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Item 97762

389-391 St. John Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Emma C. Houston Use: Dwelling

Item 37432

Assessor's Record, 551-559 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Ayer Houston Corp. Use: Factory

Item 37433

Assessor's Record, 551-559 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Ayer Houston Corp. Use: Factory

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 116608

Mark Langdon Hill house, Falmouth, 1930-1954

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1930–1954 Location: Falmouth Client: Mark Langdon Hill Architect: Stevens and Saunders Architects

Online Exhibits

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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.

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Working Women of the Old Port

Women at the turn of the 20th century were increasingly involved in paid work outside the home. For wage-earning women in the Old Port section of Portland, the jobs ranged from canning fish and vegetables to setting type. A study done in 1907 found many women did not earn living wages.

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Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland

The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.

Site Pages

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Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 2 of 2

"… Light Infantry Encampment and Tom "Piggy" Houston Sculptor Benjamin Paul Akers, ca. 1860Maine Historical Society Photographers sought to…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico Corner

"Hall, Frank G. Parsons, John Burnham, Clark Houston, David Brown, Victor Abbott, and Orville P. Tucker."

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Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"Shaw, F.B. Pease, and A.C. Houston. It was one of the best equipped mills in all of New England, producing cashmere and dress goods."

My Maine Stories

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History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars