Keywords: bees wax
Item 99379
Contributed by: Leeds Historical Society Date: circa 1860 Location: Leeds Media: Paper with ink
Item 6625
Sisters Ada S. Cummings and Lizzie Bailey, Sabbathday Lake, ca. 1915
Contributed by: United Society of Shakers Date: circa 1915 Location: New Gloucester Media: Photographic print, glass plate negative
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In Time and Eternity: Shakers in the Industrial Age
"In Time and Eternity: Maine Shakers in the Industrial Age 1872-1918" is a series of images that depict in detail the Shakers in Maine during a little explored time period of expansion and change.
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Farmington's Agricultural Pursuits
"(In 1849, Stephen Titcomb, Jr., the son of Farmington’s first settler Stephen Titcomb patented a bee hive. U.S. patent # 6,285)."