Keywords: ship chandlery
Item 26636
Dunn & Elliot Company Store, Thomaston, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Thomaston Media: Photographic print
Item 27888
Zina Hyde & Co. Chandlery, Pierce Photographic Gallery, Bath ca. 1865
Contributed by: Patten Free Library Date: circa 1865 Location: Bath Media: Photographic print
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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.
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Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland
The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.
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"… building, cooper’s shops, processing plants, and chandleries. With its resources of timber, granite, water power, fishing and hunting, Swan’s…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Bath Savings Institution and Hyde Block
"The purpose of the chandlery was to sell equipment for ships, such as rope, windlasses, anchors, and canvas."
