Keywords: Thomaston Grocery
Item 26646
Thomaston Grocery, Thomaston, ca. 1889
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: circa 1889 Location: Thomaston Media: Photographic print
Item 26668
Telegraph Block, Thomaston, ca. 1870
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: circa 1870 Location: Thomaston Media: Photographic print
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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.
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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.
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The Watts Block
"He built an impressive three-storey brick hip-roof building and presented it to the town of Thomaston."
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Raymond Wallace
"I started my first job at 13 at Thomaston grocery. Hard work gives you money. I worked up there and I don’t really remember how much I got paid."
