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Historical Items

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Item 82133

Biddeford and Saco Gas Light Company stock certificate, ca. 1857

Contributed by: Allison Fecteau through Biddeford Historical Society Date: circa 1857 Location: Biddeford Media: Ink on paper

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Item 5514

Lewiston Gas Light Company, ca. 1880

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1880 Location: Lewiston Media: Albumen print

Item 17581

Camping lantern, ca. 1937

Contributed by: L.L.Bean Corporate Archives Date: circa 1937 Location: Freeport Media: Metal, glass

Tax Records

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Item 37457

Assessor's Record, 2-40 West Commercial Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Portland Gas Light Co. Use: Gas Holder

Item 37470

Assessor's Record, 2-40 West Commercial Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Portland Gas Light Co. Use: Gas Holder

Item 76720

Assessor's Record, 18-62 St. James Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Portland Gas Light Company Use: Gas Holder

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109729

Coal Shed for Lewiston Gas Light Company, Lewiston, ca. 1888

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1888 Location: Lewiston Client: Lewiston Gas Light Company Architect: George M. Coombs

Item 109727

Plans of Alterations for Building for Lewiston Gas Light Co., Lewiston, 1909

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1909 Location: Lewiston Client: Lewiston Gas Light Company Architect: Coombs and Gibbs Architects

Item 116461

Payson House, Scarborough, 1936-1938

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1936–1938 Location: Scarborough Client: Harold C. Payson Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine

As early as 1633, entrepreneurs along the Piscataqua River in southern Maine utilized the force of the river to power a sawmill, recognizing the potential of the area's natural power sources, but it was not until the 1890s that technology made widespread electricity a reality -- and even then, consumers had to be urged to use it.

Exhibit

Most Inconvenient Storm

A Portland newspaper wrote about an ice storm of January 28, 1886 saying, "The city of Portland was visited yesterday by the most inconvenient storm of the season."

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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.

Site Pages

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Site Page

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 121-end

"… new inventions and changes in life -- trolleys, gas, electric street lights, and U.S. Mail boxes. He wrote again about his family's history in…"

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Life on a Tidal River - The War Effort

"However, the amount of gas per week a family got depended on how important the vehicle was. People were encouraged to ride together in cars."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family

"… Porter's house was built in the area where the gas pumps at White Elephant are located today. That home later became the Hotel Strong."

My Maine Stories

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Story

making light
by David Johansen

My relationship with Maine and how and why I make neon lights here.

Story

John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne

Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.

Story

A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down