Keywords: East Front Street
Item 108736
Contributed by: Patten Free Library Date: circa 1897 Location: Bath Media: Photographic print
Item 27862
Front Street, From Post Office Square, Bath. ca. 1930
Contributed by: Private Collection through Patten Free Library Date: circa 1930 Location: Bath Media: Postcard
Item 52529
122-124 Franklin Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: David Carvel Use: Apartments
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
Maine has some 17 million acres of forest land. But even on a smaller, more local scale, trees have been an important part of the landscape. In many communities, tree-lined commercial and residential streets are a dominant feature of photographs of the communities.
Site Page
Bath's Historic Downtown - Bath Savings Institution and Hyde Block
"Front Street at Arch Street, Bath, ca. 1892Patten Free Library Before the Hyde Block was built in 1871, the site at Broad and Front Streets was…"
Site Page
Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview
"… in and Commercial Street was added to the east of Front Street, the landscape of the downtown expanded toward the river and began to resemble that…"
Story
An enjoyable conference, Portland 2021
by John C. Decker, Danville, Pennsylvania
Some snippets from a 4-day conference by transportation historians in Portland, September 7-11, 2021
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.
