Keywords: 1917
Item 7186
Selden Connor, Portland, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Media: Photographic print
Item 75567
Annah Butler Richardson and friends, Russia, ca. 1917
Contributed by: Descendants of Annah Butler Richardson and Arthur Berry Richardson through Prince Memorial Library Date: 1917 Media: Photographic print
Item 65229
73-75 Newbury Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: David Finkelman Use: Apartments
Item 109468
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1917 Location: Bath; Bath Client: Bath Memorial Hospital Architect: Alonzo J. Harriman
Item 116396
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1917 Location: Rockport Client: The Samoset Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
Sylvan Site: A Model Development
Frederick Wheeler Hinckley, a Portland lawyer and politician, had grand visions of a 200-home development when he began the Sylvan Site in South Portland in 1917. The stock market crash in 1929 put a halt to his plans, but by then he had built 37, no two of which were alike.
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 Page
"… Farmington Public Library Association, 1917 Contributed by Farmington Public Library Description In the early years of the Library…"
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Lodging and Hotels: A Savage Family Business
"… by Herman LaFritz Savage until his death in 1913 and then, perhaps by his wife Wilhemina Falt Savage and other extended family until ca 1917."
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
Story
One of the first abstract painters in Maine
by William Manning
I have grown as a painter in ways I might not have if I moved to New York
