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Historical Items

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Item 31902

Kenduskeag Block burning, Bangor, 1911

Contributed by: Bangor Historical Society Date: 1911-04-30 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print

Item 31298

Central Street, Economy's Market, Bangor, ca. 1935

Contributed by: Bangor Historical Society Date: circa 1935 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print

Item 31296

Central Street Building, Bangor, ca. 1960

Contributed by: Bangor Historical Society Date: circa 1960 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 150226

Bangor Daily News alterations, Bangor, 1944

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1944 Location: Bangor Client: Bangor Daily News Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Item 150166

Bangor-Old Town Municipal Airport, Bangor, 1945-1948

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1945–1948 Location: Bangor Client: Cities of Bangor and Old Town Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Item 150253

Thatcher's Restaurant in Wheelwright - Clark Block, Broad Street Arcade, Bangor, 1972

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1972 Location: Bangor Client: Thatcher's Restaurant Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Mary Mitchell Selmore, Pleasant Point, 1901

Holding up the Sky: Wabanaki people, culture, history, and art

Learn about Native diplomacy and obligation by exploring 13,000 years of Wabanaki residence in Maine through 17th century treaties, historic items, and contemporary artworks—from ash baskets to high fashion. Wabanaki voices contextualize present-day relevance and repercussions of 400 years of shared histories between Wabanakis and settlers to their region.

Exhibit

John Burton with weeding spade, ca. 1900

Aroostook County Railroads

Construction of the Bangor and Aroostook rail lines into northern Aroostook County in the early twentieth century opened the region to tourism and commerce from the south.

Exhibit

The Nativist Klan

In Maine, like many other states, a newly formed Ku Klux Klan organization began recruiting members in the years just before the United States entered World War I. A message of patriotism and cautions about immigrants and non-Protestants drew many thousands of members into the secret organization in the early 1920s. By the end of the decade, the group was largely gone from Maine.