Keywords: Diamond National
Item 99400
Fire inside of Diamond National lumberyard, Biddeford, 1963
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1963-04-20 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Item 99426
Remnants of the Diamond National & Hooper Street Fire, Biddeford, 1963
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1963-04-20 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Success at riding a bike mirrored success in life. Bicycling could bring families together. Bicycling was good for one's health. Bicycling was fun. Bicycles could go fast. Such were some of the arguments made to induce many thousands of people around Maine and the nation to take up the new pastime at the end of the nineteenth century.
Exhibit
Dressing Up, Standing Out, Fitting In
Adorning oneself to look one's "best" has varied over time, gender, economic class, and by event. Adornments suggest one's sense of identity and one's intent to stand out or fit in.
Site Page
Rum, Riot, and Reform - Drinking: Elegance and Debauchery
"Diamond Cove, Great Diamond Island, ca. 1836Maine Historical Society Diamond Cove, ca. 1836 Charles Codman (c."
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru
"… later known as the Diamond Match branch of Diamond National. Since 1930 all sorts of small wooden objects were made there: round clothespins and…"
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
