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Keywords: industry
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Item 19466
Title: Granite Industry Instruction Manual
Contributed by: Maine Granite Industry Historical Society
Date: circa 1930
Location: Mount Desert
Media: Paper and ink print
Item 5607
Title: Lubec sardine industry, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1950
Location: Lubec
Media: Black and white photograph
Item 10515
Title: David M. Norton of Industry, Maine State Legislature, 1880
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1880
Location: Industry
Media: Photoprint
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Item 38982
Address: 622-624 Congress Street, Portland
Owner in 1924: Consolidated Industries, Inc.
Use: Apartments & Stores
Item 38984
Exhibits Showing 3 of 45 View All
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Maine's corn canning industry, as illuminated by the career of George S. Jewett, prospered between 1850 and 1950.
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Biddeford, Saco and the Textile Industry
The largest textile factory in the country reached seven stories up on the banks of the Saco River in 1825, ushering in more than a century of making cloth in Biddeford and Saco. Along with the industry came larger populations and commercial, retail, social, and cultural growth.
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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.
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The history of the smallest city in Maine as created by a team consisting of the Hallowell Area Board of Trade, Hubbard Free Library, The Row House, Vaughan Homestead Foundation, Hallowell Firemen’s Association, and students from Hall-Dale Middle School. Topics covered include: natural disasters, the granite industry and other industries central to the development of the city, firefighters and police, Hallowell’s contribution to modern medicine, the Kennebec River, and more.
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A history of the easternmost town in Maine as created by the Lubec Historical Society, Lubec Consolidated School, Lubec Landmarks, and Lubec Memorial Library. Exhibits include the sardine and herring industries, the Sardine Queen, the West Quoddy Head Lighthouse, the 1911 Centennial Celebration, the S. S. Cumberland Steamer, the gold hoax, an important community quilt, a tragic boating accident, and the blizzard of 1934, among others.
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay
A history of one of Maine’s many populated islands. The site was created by a team consisting of representatives from Islesboro Historical Society, Islesboro Central School, and the Alice L. Pendleton Library. Early settlements, businesses and cottage industries, schools, water transportation, and summer resorts are the topics covered.