Keywords: Card playing
Item 10592
Game of Authors playing card, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Cambridge; Portland Media: Paper
Item 10594
Game of Authors playing card, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Portland; Cambridge Media: Ink on paper
Item 37301
141-145 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: William J Dennis Use: Store
Exhibit
Baseball often is called the National Pastime. For many people, baseball is encountered in the backyard and down the street, a game played by a few or the full contingent of a team.
Exhibit
Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye
The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro to pages 91-132
"DeGarmo Brookes, comments on card playing, provides a program of an 1874 dance evening, Oliver Lunt's Dancing Academy, dances Martin sponsored, and…"
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ice Storm Poem
"… glaze from behind dark windows; playing cards by candlelight with battery-run radios humming to fill silence."
Story
The Wall
by Michael Uhl
What it means to have beaten the odds
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
