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Historical Items

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Item 9043

Skowhegan Wheel Club, 1894

Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: 1894 Location: Skowhegan; Skowhegan Media: Photographic print

Item 102415

Lucy Butts Carvill with spinning wheel, New Portland, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Stanley Museum on deposit at Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: New Portland Media: Lantern slide, hand colored

Item 23084

Pulley wheel, Ambajejus, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Ambajejus Boom House Museum Date: circa 1920 Location: T1 R9 WELS Media: Wood

Tax Records

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Item 76898

28 St. Lawrence Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Arthur A. Griggs Use: Dwelling - Four Family

Item 99037

Assessor's Record, 1929-2013 Forest Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Riverton Realty Company Use: Ferris Wheel

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Mural mystery in Westport Island's Cornelius Tarbox, Jr. House

The Cornelius Tarbox, Jr. House, a well-preserved Greek Revival house on Westport Island, has a mystery contained within--a panoramic narrative mural. The floor-to-ceiling mural contains eight painted panels that create a colorful coastal seascape which extends through the front hallway and up the stairwell. The name of the itinerant painter has been lost over time, can you help us solve the mystery of who he or she was?

Exhibit

In Time and Eternity: Shakers in the Industrial Age

"In Time and Eternity: Maine Shakers in the Industrial Age 1872-1918" is a series of images that depict in detail the Shakers in Maine during a little explored time period of expansion and change.

Exhibit

From Sewers to Skylines: William S. Edwards's 1887 Photo Album

William S. Edwards (1830-1918) was a civil engineer who worked for the City of Portland from 1876-1906. Serving as First Assistant to Chief Engineer William A. Goodwin, then to Commissioner George N. Fernald, Edwards was a fixture in City Hall for 30 consecutive years, proving indispensable throughout the terms of 15 Mayors of Portland, including all six of those held by James Phineas Baxter. Edwards made significant contributions to Portland, was an outstanding mapmaker and planner, and his works continue to benefit historians.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old House (circa 1820-2013)

"… Asticou dwellings that should have been built on wheels. It was originally built and sited around 1820 near the northeast corner of the present-day…"

Site Page

John Martin: Expert Observer - Old Bill, gundalow crossing Penobscot River, Bangor, 1846

"… by "making the horses head fast and shocking the wheels." The illustration is on page 234 of the journal."

Site Page

Lincoln, Maine - Thomas S. Libby

"The wooden wheels were primarily for carriages or wagons. A carriage maker is a person that makes carriages."

My Maine Stories

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Story

Aroostook Potato Harvest: Perspective of a Six Year Old
by Phyllis A. Blackstone

A child's memory of potato harvest in the 1950s

Story

My father's world - the old farm in Richmond, Maine
by Donald C. Cunningham

A story about my father and our family.

Story

Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis

The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.