Keywords: National Cash Register
Item 81554
Portland Water District Casco Street Office, Portland, 1964
Contributed by: Portland Water District Date: circa 1964 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 14953
Willis Arbuthnot, Portland, ca. 1918
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1918 Location: Portland; Lewiston Media: Photo negative
Exhibit
Port of Portland's Custom House and Collectors of Customs
The collector of Portland was the key to federal patronage in Maine, though other ports and towns had collectors. Through the 19th century, the revenue was the major source of Federal Government income. As in Colonial times, the person appointed to head the custom House in Casco Bay was almost always a leading community figure, or a well-connected political personage.
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 Page
Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties
"… farmers and prompting the introduction of new cash crops. A return to cooler temperatures in the early 1830s and an increase in precipitation that…"
Site Page
"Now a museum, the site is on the National Register of Historic Places. As jobs were lost and once thriving businesses closed the town’s population…"
