Keywords: Franklin Street
Item 31283
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: 1911 Location: Bangor Media: Lantern slide
Item 17444
Franklin Street, Portland, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1950 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 52381
59 Franklin Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Jacob Solar Use: Store
Item 52681
215 Franklin Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Samuel Shulman Use: Storage
Item 109124
Franklin Harlow Corporation building, 1950
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1950 Client: Franklin Harlow Corporation Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell
Item 109189
Proposed alterations to 28 Franklin St. for Maine Seaboard Paper Company, Bucksport, 1946
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1946 Location: Bucksport Client: Maine Seaboard Paper Company Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell
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
Putting Men to Work, Saving Trees
While many Mainers were averse to accepting federal relief money during the Great Depression of the 1930s, young men eagerly joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of President Franklin Roosevelt's most popular programs. The Maine Forest Service supervised the work of many of the camps.
Site Page
Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education
"… Falls Joan Small, Research Librarian - UMF Franklin Journal & Franklin Chronicle Newspapers Richard Mallett's Schools Unpublished history of St…"
Site Page
Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park
"… center, and a building for events such as the Franklin County Agriculture Society. When the farmers drove their wagons to Society meetings, they…"
Story
Elizabeth Mantis Spiliopoulos: passion for life & Greek heritage
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
A spunky 99-year-old shares her crystal-clear recollections of all the changes in her lifetime
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
