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Historical Items

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Item 15832

Harris Spinney grocery, Eliot, ca. 1910

Contributed by: William Fogg Library Date: 1910 Location: Eliot Media: Postcard

Item 12237

Power's Grocery Store, Topsham, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1910 Location: Topsham Media: Photograph, print

Item 12238

Pejepscot Village General Store, Topsham, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1900 Location: Topsham Media: Photograph, print

Tax Records

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Item 76265

119-123 Spring Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Samuel B. Thombs Use: Garage

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 111501

Brewster House Bed & Breakfast elevations, Freeport, 1993-1994

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1993–1994 Location: Freeport Clients: Matt Cartmell; Amy Cartmell Architect: Carol A. Wilson; Carol A. Wilson, Architect

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Promoting Rockland Through a Stereopticon, 1875

Frank Crockett and photographer J.P. Armbrust took stereo views of Rockland's downtown, industry, and notable homes in the 1870s as a way to promote tourism to the town.

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

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.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"There remains one grocery store but the theater, the pharmacy, and other services have all closed. Beginnings Dock at Northeast Harbor, ca."

Site Page

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - V. Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry

"There is currently one store supplying groceries and basic goods on the island, though seasonal businesses cater to the increased population in…"

Site Page

Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"Mowry; T.G. Mitchell’s grocery store; E.L. Ring; and Wilbur A. Shea, who received 25 barrels of cottonseed oil which he sold to local sardine packers."

My Maine Stories

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Story

History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars