Keywords: Antique Fire Equipment
Item 81881
Monson's Fire Equipment on parade, Monson, 1922
Contributed by: Monson Historical Society Date: 1922-08-24 Location: Monson Media: Photographic print
Item 17458
Bar Harbor Fire Department, ca. 1935
Contributed by: Bar Harbor Fire Department Date: circa 1935 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - The Fireman's Musters in Hallowell
"With a gathering of antique equipment for the use of competition and display, musters were a source of games, family bonding, new friendships…"
