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Downtown Bangor Fire, c. 1910

Contributed by: Hose 5 Fire Museum

Date: circa 1910

Location: Bangor

Media: Photograph

Winter downtown, Bangor, ca. 1895

Contributed by: Bangor Historical Society

Date: circa 1895

Location: Bangor

Media: Glass-plate Negative

Biddeford and Saco downtowns, ca. 1870

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library

Date: circa 1870

Location: Biddeford; Saco

Media: Ink on paper

40 Brown Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Frederick N. Dow

Style: Vernacular Victorian

Use: Apartments

Assessor's Record, 42 Brown Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Frederick N. Dow

Use: Apartments

Assessor's Record, 44 Brown Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Frederick N. Dow

Use: Apartments

A Parade, an Airplane and Two Weddings

Two couples, a parade from downtown Caribou to the airfield, and two airplane flights were the scene in 1930 when the couples each took off in a single-engine plane to tie the knot high over Aroostook County.

Promoting Rockland Through a Stereopticon, 1875

Frank Crockett and photographer J.P. Armbrust took stereo views of Rockland's downtown, industry, and notable homes in the 1870s as a way to promote tourism to the town.

Maine Streets: The Postcard View

Photographers from the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co. of Belfast traveled throughout the state, especially in small communities, taking images for postcards. Many of these images, taken in the first three decades of the twentieth century, capture Main Streets on the brink of modernity.

Bath's Historic Downtown

The history of downtown Bath as created by the students of Bath Middle School, with assistance from members of the Sagadahoc History & Genealogy Room at the Patten Free Library and Bath Historical Society. Seventeen exhibits examine various historic blocks in the downtown section of the city.

Portland Public Library

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Abbe Museum

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Aroostook Potato Harvest: Perspective of a Six Year Old

by Phyllis A. Blackstone

A child's memory of potato harvest in the 1950s