Keywords: tin type
Item 100059
Tin tube fire extinguisher, Waldoboro, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Waldoboro Fire Department Date: circa 1900 Location: Waldoboro Media: Tin
Item 102724
John Calvin Stevens, Charles E.B. King, William Lowell, Portland, ca. 1885
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1885 Location: Portland Media: Tintype
Exhibit
Margaret Chase Smith: A Historic Candidacy
When she announced her candidacy for President in January 1964, three-term Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman to seek the nomination of one of the two major political parties.
Exhibit
This Rebellion: Maine and the Civil War
For Mainers like many other people in both the North and the South, the Civil War, which lasted from 1861-1865, had a profound effect on their lives. Letters, artifacts, relics, and other items saved by participants at home and on the battlefield help illuminate the nature of the Civil War experience for Mainers.
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 2 of 2
"Web. Tin Bridge Wreck Bangor Daily Whig and Courier (Newspaper) August 10, 1871. Bangor Public Library. Microfilm."
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor
"Tin plates came to the shop, undecorated ones for tops and bottoms, lithographed ones for the sides with the company name and brand."
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
