Keywords: granite company
Item 19471
Schooner Loading Granite at Hall Quarry, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Granite Industry Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Mount Desert; Hall Quarry Media: Photographic print
Item 29246
Granite column, Winthrop Hill, Hallowell, 1897
Contributed by: Hubbard Free Library Date: 1897-03-01 Location: Hallowell Media: Photographic print
Item 85112
Assessor's Record, 133-135 Wilmot Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Union Granite Company Use: Factory & Office
Item 85113
Assessor's Record, 133-139 Wilmot Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Union Granite Company Use: Shed - Stone
Item 111305
Garage and shop for New England Public Service Co., Rockland, 1927
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1927–1930 Location: Rockland; Rockland; Rockland Client: New England Public Service Co. Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
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Maine's natural resources -- granite, limestone and slate in particular -- along with its excellent ports made it a leader in mining and production of the valuable building materials. Stone work also attracted numerous skilled immigrants.
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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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Maine Granite Industry Historical Society
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Historic Hallowell - Eastern Illustrating Company
"… Cassens, a young entrepreneur, started a postcard company, the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company, in the mid-coast town of Belfast, Maine."
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Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
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Reverend Thomas Smith of First Parish Portland
by Kristina Minister, Ph.D.
Pastor, Physician, Real Estate Speculator, and Agent for Wabanaki Genocide