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Keywords: Portland, Maine
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Item 4148
Title: Advertising card, Portland Packing Co.
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Location: Portland
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Item 88
Title: Portland Eskimos player, ca. 1926
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media
Date: circa 1926
Location: Portland
Media: Black and white photograph, glass negative
Item 11965
Title: Portland map, 1773
Contributed by: City of Portland Dept. of Public Works
Date: 1773
Location: Portland
Media: Ink on paper, map
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Exhibits Showing 3 of 41 View All
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Horace W. Shaylor: Portland Penman
Horace W. Shaylor, a native of Ohio, settled in Portland and turned his focus to handwriting, developing several unique books of handwriting instruction. He also was a talented artist.
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South Portland's Wartime Shipbuilding
Two shipyards in South Portland, built quickly in 1941 to construct cargo ships for the British and Americans, produced nearly 270 ships in two and a half years. Many of those vessels bore the names of notable Mainers.
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J.A. Poor and the Portland-Montreal Connection
John A. Poor's determination in 1845 to bring rail service to Maine and to make Portland the winter port for Montreal, along with the steel foundry he started to build locomotives and many other products, helped boost the economy of Portland the state.
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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future
A multi-village history of this western Maine town as created by students and teachers from MSAD #74, the New Portland Community Library, and the New Portland Historical Society. Exhibits are divided into sections examining North New Portland Village, East New Portland Village, and West New Portland Village.
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