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Item 20317

Mail truck, Portland, 1926

Mail truck, Portland, 1926

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1926 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative

Item 20141

Announcement of Hallowell, Augusta & Bangor mail stage, 1826

Announcement of Hallowell, Augusta & Bangor mail stage, 1826

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1826-01-30 Media: Ink on paper

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Item 104946

Rural Free Delivery (RFD) mailman, Westport Island, ca. 1908

Rural Free Delivery (RFD) mailman, Westport Island, ca. 1908

Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: circa 1908 Location: Westport Island; Westport Island Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Portland letter carriers, December 1926

The Public Face of Christmas

Christmas, a Christian holiday observed by many Mainers, has a very public, seasonal face that makes it visible to those of all beliefs.

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Northport Hotel, ca. 1900

Summer Folk: The Postcard View

Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."

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Riverside Hotel, at Popham Beach, Phippsburg, ca. 1910

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.

Site Pages

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Ice Storm, Hallowell Post Office, 1998

Historic Hallowell - Post Office and Fire Station

"… police are the only ones that can postpone the delivery of mail, otherwise mail must be delivered."

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First Postmaster of Minturn, a village on Swan's Island, ca. 1910

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Island Postmistresses

"… department established a mail route and paid the mail carrier In 1894 this old mail route was discontinued and a steamboat company contracted to…"

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Rural Free Delivery Driver, Strong, ca. 1915

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 3 of 4

"Bridle paths were the only tracks for early mail carriers through the wilderness north of Augusta. The first mail route to Strong was established in…"

My Maine Stories

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Vietnam Memoirs

Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey

MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR