Keywords: traffic sign
Item 66108
Maine sign post, Lynchville, ca. 1940
Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1940 Location: Lynchville Media: Linen texture postcard
Item 81081
Road Signs, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1955
Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: circa 1955 Location: Mount Desert Media: Photographic print
Item 52733
104-110 Free Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Lucy A Libby Use: Store
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
Scientist, author and explorer Donald B. MacMillan established Wiscasset as his homeport for many of the voyages he made to the Arctic region starting in the early 1920s.
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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Women Leaders and Temperance
"… heart-breaking curse o the liquor traffic." - L.M.N. Stevens, 1913. Home of Mrs. Lillian M.W. Stevens, Portland, ca."
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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Neal Dow
""The liquor traffic is a grater curse to the nation and a greater source of misery, wretchedness and pain to the people than are all other sources of…"
