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Historical Items

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Item 6159

Gannett Publishing Co., ca. 1930

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Augusta Media: Photographic print

Item 6099

Gannett Publishing Company, Augusta, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Augusta Media: Photographic print

Item 6160

Gannett Publishing Co., ca. 1930

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Augusta Media: Photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 148189

Walch Publishing Valley Street alterations first floor plan, Portland, 1983-1987

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1983–1987 Location: Portland Client: J. Weston Walch, Publisher Architect: Wadsworth Boston Mercer & Weatherill

Item 148190

Walch Publishing parking plan, Portland, ME, 1991-1999

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1991–1999 Location: Portland Client: Walch Properties Architect: Allied Architects & Engineers

Item 109280

Republican Journal Offices alterations, Belfast, 1944

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1944 Location: Belfast Client: The Journal Publishing Company Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Online Exhibits

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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.

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.

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.

Site Pages

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - SEE NOTES "Jaffery" a new novel. Publisher's promotion postcard.

"SEE NOTES "Jaffery" a new novel. Publisher's promotion postcard. Contributed by Farmington Public Library Description Publishers often…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - SEE NOTES "John Bunyon's Dream Story". Publishers promotional postcard. 1913.

"SEE NOTES "John Bunyon's Dream Story". Publishers promotional postcard. 1913. Contributed by Farmington Public Library Description…"

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection

"The Guy Gannett Publishing Company was born; publishers of the Portland Press Herald, Waterville Morning Sentinel, and the Maine Farmer."

My Maine Stories

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Story

Dr. Norman Beaupré: Preserving his Franco-American culture
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center

Journey growing up as a Franco-American in Biddeford to his career as a professor and author.

Story

COME OUT SWINGIN'!
by Brian Daly

I wrote a musical comedy about Lewiston hosting the Ali-Liston title fight in 1965.

Story

Saga of a Sub Chaser S.C. 268 along Maine Coast
by DANIEL R CHRISTOPHER

A look back at a Sub Chaser Crew on duty along the Maine coastline near the end of World War I

Lesson Plans

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Lesson Plan

Longfellow Studies: "Haunted Houses"

Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12 Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
Longfellow's collection The Courtship of Miles Standish and other Poems was published in 1858. It sold 250,000 copies in two months and over 10.000 copies in London on the first day; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was extremely popular during his lifetime. "Haunted Houses" is a work from that collection. It is a poem that is especially appealing around Halloween. The poem welcomes the reader to a place where "The spirit-world around the world of sense floats like an atmosphere . . ."

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Longfellow Studies: "The Poet's Tale - The Birds of Killingworth"

Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12 Content Area: English Language Arts, Science & Engineering, Social Studies
This poem is one of the numerous tales in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Tales of the Wayside Inn. The collection was published in three parts between 1863 and 1873. This series of long narrative poems were written by Longfellow during the most difficult personal time of his life. While mourning the tragic death of his second wife (Fanny Appleton Longfellow) he produced this ambitious undertaking. During this same period he translated Dante's Inferno from Italian to English. "The Poet's Tale" is a humorous poem with a strong environmental message which reflects Longfellow's Unitarian outlook on life.

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Longfellow Studies: "The Slave's Dream"

Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12 Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
In December of 1842 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Poems on Slavery was published. "The Slave's Dream" is one of eight anti-slavery poems in the collection. A beautifully crafted and emotionally moving poem, it mesmerizes the reader with the last thoughts of an African King bound to slavery, as he lies dying in a field of rice. The 'landscape of his dreams' include the lordly Niger flowing, his green-eyed Queen, the Caffre huts and all of the sights and sounds of his homeland until at last 'Death illuminates his Land of Sleep.'