Keywords: shoppers
Item 25747
Main Street, Stonington, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1910 Location: Stonington Media: Glass Negative
Item 62026
Waterville Main Street, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Waterville Public Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Waterville Media: Photographic print
Item 36844
82 Clark Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Robert W DeWolfe Use: Dwelling - Two family
Item 36843
80 Clark Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Robert W DeWolfe Use: Dwelling & Store
Exhibit
The Swinging Bridge: Walking Across the Androscoggin
Built in 1892 to entice workers at the Cabot Manufacturing Corporation in Brunswick to move to newly built housing in Topsham, the Androscoggin Pedestrian "Swinging" Bridge or Le Petit Pont quickly became important to many people traveling between the two communities.
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.
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - Mid Twentieth Century
"Understandably, a shrinking percentage of shoppers retained a preference for more familiar, traditional styles of dress."
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Life on a Tidal River - The Great Bangor Floods: 1902 and 1976
"The quickly rising water caught many shoppers and downtown workers by surprise. Photo courtesy of the Bangor Daily News X 1976 February 2, 1976…"
