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Historical Items

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Item 22495

Union Church, Biddeford Pool, 1910

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1910 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 25004

Swimming Pool, Bar Harbor, ca. 1905

Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1905 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard

Item 25003

Swimming Pool Club, Bar Harbor, ca. 1905

Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: 1903 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard

Tax Records

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Item 75541

2 Silver Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Morris Sacknoff Use: Shooting Gallery

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109104

Mr. & Mrs. Louis Brechemin swimming pool, Belfast, 1952

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1952 Location: Belfast Client: Louis Brechemin Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Item 110473

Stonecroft pool and service court, Falmouth, 1999-2001

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1999–2001 Location: Falmouth Clients: Tom Tureen; Susan Tureen Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates

Item 116312

Cottage at Biddeford Pool, Biddeford, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Biddeford Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

The Kotzschmar Memorial Organ

A fire and two men whose lives were entwined for more than 50 years resulted in what is now considered to be "the Jewel of Portland" -- the Austin organ that was given to the city of Portland in 1912.

Exhibit

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.

Exhibit

May Baskets, a Dog, and a Party for Children

Two women thinking intruders were coming into their Biddeford Pool home, let the dog out to chase them away. Later, they discovered the truth about the noise at their door.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Presque Isle: The Star City - Presque Isle Outdoor Pool

"The city’s second pool, the Indoor Pool, was built in 1978 on the grounds of the Northern Maine Fair and opened to the public in 1979."

Site Page

Presque Isle: The Star City - Adventures in Aroostook County - Page 2 of 3

"There was a drug store called Rexol. It served hot peanuts and ice cream. There was a terrible hurricane in the 1970s that knocked down trees."

Site Page

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"1915McArthur Public Library Their doom was just over the horizon, with the coming of the white settlers and more importantly the wars those settlers…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Portland in the 1940s
by Carol Norton Hall

As a young woman in Portland during WWII, the presence of servicemen was life changing.

Story

Sustainable Futures
by Bill McKibben, Schumann Distinguished Scholar Middlebury College

Climate change is the biggest thing humans have ever done. So we need to think big as we take it on.

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My career working at Pepperell Mills in the Vellux Division
by David Bishop

My 35 years working in the Vellux blanket division of Pepperell Mills, Biddeford.