Keywords: rims
Item 7426
Main Street sewer construction, Biddeford, 1914 - 1915
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1914 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Item 23489
Contributed by: Hudson Museum, Univ. of Maine Date: 1900 Media: Birchbark
Item 39015
632-652 Congress Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Devisees of James Cunningham Use: Hotel
Exhibit
George Popham and a group of fellow Englishmen arrived at the mouth of the Kennebec River, hoping to trade with Native Americans, find gold and other valuable minerals, and discover a Northwest passage. In 18 months, the fledgling colony was gone.
Exhibit
Gifts From Gluskabe: Maine Indian Artforms
According to legend, the Great Spirit created Gluskabe, who shaped the world of the Native People of Maine, and taught them how to use and respect the land and the resources around them. This exhibit celebrates the gifts of Gluskabe with Maine Indian art works from the early nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Fashion in Bangor, 1865
"… established a fashion as above to take off the rim entire and leave nothing but the crown and a visor." He suggested that women's fashions changed…"
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 6 of 13
"… full, the picker would put a ticket in the barrel rim. The barrel loaders would collect the tickets so that the farmer could keep track of the…"
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
Harold's Garage, Rome Hollow, Maine
by Mimi C
Story about Harold Hawes, owner of Harold's garage and self-styled auctioneer in Rome Hollow, Maine
