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Keywords: Eastern Country

Historical Items

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Item 105877

Hilton's Store and Post Office, Alna, 1909

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1909 Location: Alna Media: Glass Plate Negative

Item 102068

"Tract of land lying in Poland," 1798

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1798 Location: Auburn; Poland; Minot; Turner Media: Ink on paper

Item 98761

The Mooring Camping Ground, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1940 Location: Belfast Media: Glass Negative

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Lincoln County through the Eastern Eye

The Penobscot Marine Museum’s photography collections include nearly 50,000 glass plate negatives of images for "real photo" postcards produced by the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast. This exhibit features postcards from Lincoln County.

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.

Exhibit

Washington County Through Eastern's Eye

Images taken by itinerant photographers for Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company, a real photo postcard company, provide a unique look at industry, commerce, recreation, tourism, and the communities of Washington County in the early decades of the twentieth century.

Site Pages

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Music in Maine - Country Music

"… Music By Ken Brooks Choosing a Career in Country and Bluegrass Music Click to read entire story I grew up in the small town of Robbinston in…"

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Music in Maine - Radio Cowboys and Country Music

"Funded by the Maine Country Music Association, it is the first such hall of fame museum in Maine. Founders established the MCMHOF to recognize and…"

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

My Maine Stories

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Story

Choosing a Career in Country and Bluegrass Music
by Ken Brooks

How I became a country and bluegrass musician

Story

Reverend Thomas Smith of First Parish Portland
by Kristina Minister, Ph.D.

Pastor, Physician, Real Estate Speculator, and Agent for Wabanaki Genocide

Story

In an Old, Abandoned Island House, I Found my Mentor and my Muse
by Robin Clifford Wood

An aspiring writer finds inspiration and a mentor from the past in an old island home.