Keywords: York Manufacturing Company boarding houses
Item 29070
Boarding houses of York Mills, Saco, ca. 1900
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print
Item 29280
Laconia Mills boarding houses, Biddeford, ca. 1895
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1895 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Paper has shaped Maine's economy, molded individual and community identities, and impacted the environment throughout Maine. When Hugh Chisholm opened the Otis Falls Pulp Company in Jay in 1888, the mill was one of the most modern paper-making facilities in the country, and was connected to national and global markets. For the next century, Maine was an international leader in the manufacture of pulp and paper.
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Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye
The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company
"Sources: The Continental Paper Bag Company press, 1905 H. Schedler Photo Engraving, New York Kiesling Bros. Press, New York"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War
"He married Olive True. In 1870 they lived in a boarding house in Lewiston, and he worked in a mill. By 1880 they returned to the area to live in…"
