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Historical Items

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Item 12322

Dee's Ice Cream Pint, Brunswick, ca. 1950

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1950 Location: Brunswick Media: Waxed cardboard

Item 12325

Dee's Ice Cream cone wrapper, Brunswick, ca. 1955

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: 1940–1970 Location: Brunswick Media: Paper

Item 26148

Seavey's Ice Cream, Auburn, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1940 Location: Auburn Media: Postcard

Tax Records

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Item 86344

Ice Cream Plant, Custom House Wharf, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Proprietors of Custom House Wharf Use: Ice Cream Plant

Item 76766

180-186 St. John Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Deering Ice Cream Company Use: Ice Cream Plant

Item 76767

176-178 St. John Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Deering Ice Cream Company Use: Ice House

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 110211

General Ice Cream Corporation building, Portland, 1967

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1967 Location: Portland Client: General Ice Cream Corp. Architect: Wadsworth, Boston & Tuttle

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

How Sweet It Is

Desserts have always been a special treat. For centuries, Mainers have enjoyed something sweet as a nice conclusion to a meal or celebrate a special occasion. But many things have changed over the years: how cooks learn to make desserts, what foods and tools were available, what was important to people.

Exhibit

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.

Exhibit

Scarborough: They Answered the Call

Scarborough met every quota set by the state for supplying Civil War soldiers for Union regiments. Some of those who responded became prominent citizens of the town.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Winter Fun

"Russell (son at left) and Judson Smith were making ice cream, circa 1942. Soon after, Russell left to fight in World War II."

Site Page

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Fair souvenir, Farmington Public Library, 1890

"Ice cream and lemonade were served during intermission. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

Site Page

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 5 of 5

"One farmer’s wife would bring everybody ice cream cookies and something to drink. That is how my grandmother, Edwena, spent her life in the potato…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Rest Stop in Scarborough, Maine
by Lee Evans

This is about our first visit to Maine in 1998. My wife and I moved here from Maryland in 2007.

Story

The Cup Code (working at OOB in the 1960s)
by Randy Randall

Teenagers cooking fried food in OOB and the code used identify the product and quantity.

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