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Keywords: Lewiston merchants

Historical Items

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Item 7070

Lisbon Street, Lewiston, ca. 1905

Contributed by: Lewiston Public Library Date: circa 1905 Location: Lewiston Media: Phototransparency

Item 103363

Storefronts on Lisbon Street, Lewiston, ca. 1890

Courtesy of Kathy Bolduc Amoroso, an individual partner Date: circa 1890 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print

Item 10518

Silas W. Cook, Lewiston, 1880

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1880 Location: Lewiston Media: Photoprint

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109768

M & M Library at Lewiston, Lewiston, ca. 1888

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1888 Location: Lewiston Client: unknown Architect: George M. Coombs

Online Exhibits

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Begin Again: reckoning with intolerance in Maine

BEGIN AGAIN explores Maine's historic role, going back 528 years, in crisis that brought about the pandemic, social and economic inequities, and the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.

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Chinese in Maine

In 1857, when Daniel Cough left Amoy Island, China, as a stowaway on a sailing ship from Mt. Desert Island he was on his way into history as the first Chinese person to make his home in Maine. He was soon followed by a cigar maker and a tea merchant who settled in Portland and then by many more Chinese men who spread all over Maine working mostly as laundrymen.

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Dressing Up, Standing Out, Fitting In

Adorning oneself to look one's "best" has varied over time, gender, economic class, and by event. Adornments suggest one's sense of identity and one's intent to stand out or fit in.

Site Pages

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Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell

"… Corporation Guest House (1946) in Brewer and the Merchants National Bank (1974) in Bangor. Eaton Tarbell was one of the first architects in…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"The Lewiston train should have been there a long time before both of the other trains except there was a delay with their flatbeds staying on the…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - About the Project

"By contrast, citizens of the Nezinscot region—Buckfield, Hartford, Sumner—look upon Auburn/Lewiston or South Paris/Norway as their commercial centers."