Keywords: muddy streets
Item 1208
State Street looking south from Longfellow Square, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 9076
Island Avenue, Skowhegan, ca. 1870
Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1870 Location: Skowhegan Media: Stereograph
Exhibit
Promoting Rockland Through a Stereopticon, 1875
Frank Crockett and photographer J.P. Armbrust took stereo views of Rockland's downtown, industry, and notable homes in the 1870s as a way to promote tourism to the town.
Exhibit
Lincoln County through the Eastern Eye
The Penobscot Marine Museum’s photography collections include nearly 50,000 glass plate negatives of images for "real photo" postcards produced by the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast. This exhibit features postcards from Lincoln County.
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Guilford, Maine - Special Events
"… many colored flowers, vied with each other on muddy roads for the prizes. At the Guilford Memorial Library, antiques were on display."
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History
"The dirt lanes and roads were still muddy or impassible much of the year. It would be decades before paved highways were completed."
