Keywords: Air Express
Item 16754
Snowball Express, Presque Isle, ca. 1944
Contributed by: Presque Isle Air Museum Date: circa 1944 Location: Presque Isle Media: Photographic print
Item 16669
Douglas C-54, Presque Isle, 1945
Contributed by: Presque Isle Air Museum Date: 1945 Location: Presque Isle Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Clean Water: Muskie and the Environment
Maine Senator Edmund S. Muskie earned the nickname "Mr. Clean" for his environment efforts during his tenure in Congress from 1959 to 1980. He helped created a political coalition that passed important clean air and clean water legislation, drawing on his roots in Maine.
Exhibit
In 1921, Guy Gannett purchased two competing Portland newspapers, merging them under the Portland Press Herald title. He followed in 1925 with the purchase the Portland Evening Express, which allowed him to combine two passions: photography and aviation.
Site Page
Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection
"The Evening Express had the largest circulation in the city, and leveraged this by charging exorbitant advertising rates."
Site Page
Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Icons & Influencers
"… Celebrity Photographs from the Evening Express , 1920-1935 America’s obsession with celebrity is nothing new."
Story
If You Knew My Story
by Anonymous (Maine State Prison)
A story about incarceration in Maine
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.
