Keywords: gas lines
Item 35285
Main Street butter line, Biddeford, 1943
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1943 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Item 9808
M-19 Fairmont Speeder, ca. 1950
Contributed by: L'Heritage Vivant Living Heritage Date: circa 1950 Location: Van Buren Media: Metal
Item 151904
Thorndike residence, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1996-1999
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1996–1999 Location: Brookline Client: Thorndike Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates
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
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 Page
Historic Hallowell - Days 6 & 7
"The man had not yet known that this dangerous gas was slowly killing him until it was too late. This harmful and in most cases deadly gas has side…"
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - Main Street, Lincoln, ca. 1920
"… the left, the first building is the Lincoln House gas station on the corner lot of Main and Burton St., next is the Masonic Hall where the Town…"
Story
Warming Oceans
by David Reidmiller, Gulf of Maine Research Institute
The rate of warming in the Gulf of Maine is faster than that of more than 95% of the world’s oceans
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.
