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Historical Items

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Item 12957

Softwood potato barrel, Hodgdon, ca. 1950

Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1950 Location: Hodgdon Media: Ash, cedar, wire

Item 103293

Carter Farm, Monticello, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1940 Location: Monticello Media: Photographic print

Item 12963

Ketlands Company Flintlock, ca. 1810

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1810 Location: Houlton Media: Steel, wood

Online Exhibits

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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

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.

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Summer Folk: The Postcard View

Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."

Site Pages

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"store. Shoppers could buy a barrel of flour for the price of a cord of wood. They also sold large dried codfish, which customers would take home to…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"… low for cash or exchange of produce. The wooden barrels in which it came became too expensive and hard to handle and have been wholly replaced by…"

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"Hard times hit the nation. Some of those who had moved onto the island to work had married and now struggled to remain on the island after their jobs…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler

How hunting has impacted my life

Story

Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey

MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR