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Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"Business owners also advertised by placing large signs outside their shops; these symbols made people instantly recognize the type of retail store."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin Sr. home, Ellsworth, 1823

"… details in the drawing, including Card's Cove, Cards Brook, Squaw Point, Cards Mill, Austin's Cove, the Union River, and his father's tailor shop."

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Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"… today!” “If people wanted ice they would put this card in the window showing how much ice they wanted; a ten cent block or a twenty cent block."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro to pages 91-132

"DeGarmo Brookes, comments on card playing, provides a program of an 1874 dance evening, Oliver Lunt's Dancing Academy, dances Martin sponsored, and…"

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Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond ~ A Family Affair

"… today! If people wanted ice they would put this card in the window showing how much ice they wanted; a ten cent block or a twenty cent block."

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"… beaches, family bon fire parties, and indoor card and board games, especially Bridge, Canasta and jig saw puzzles. St."

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Our Resources

"… Records Genealogy Records Photographs Post Cards Reference Books Permanent and changing exhibits Islesboro Central School PO Box 118 159 Alumni…"

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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ice Storm Poem

"… glaze from behind dark windows; playing cards by candlelight with battery-run radios humming to fill silence."

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Lincoln, Maine - Nathaniel Bodwell

"Carding mills have to brush or card the wool before it can be spun into yarn for knitting or weaving into cloth."

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Historic Hallowell - Hallowell House

"Worster House card, Hallowell, ca. 1930Maine Historical Society Since 1832, this hotel served the public."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 0-73

"Black Joseph Card Calvin Bakeman Eben Merrill Rebecca Raynes Charles Merrill Elm House, Bangor Thomas Finson Skinner Farm, Brewer Henry K."

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Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones

"… the two lines the operator put in a type of time card, and the operators would get paid from two to ten dollars per week."

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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - West New Portland Village

"… Village in 1860: New Portland Directory Business Card Dated 1860 Samuel Vose Physician & Surgeon Gould & Spooner Dry Goods & Groceries John P."

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Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"If people wanted ice, they would put a card in the window showing how much ice they wanted. Ice was either a ten cents block or a twenty cents block."

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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Patten Free Library

"Other people pay $40 for a library card each year. This information about the Patten Free Library in Bath highlights the past and present…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Memorial Library

"… cost money to rent, you had to have a library card. In the 1920s-1980s there were multiple librarians; some were Mary Buzzell, Sadie Adams, Evelyn…"

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Penobscot Marine Museum

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

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Lincoln, Maine - Post Office

"… way to Bangor or Howland to get my letters and cards from them. That is one reason why I think it is very important that we have the postal office."

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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"… From an Old North New Portland Directory Business Card Dated 1860 Abijah Coleman Postmaster W.H. Marshall Att'y at Law B. Adams “ “ “ S.A."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"This was to manufacture all the postal cards used by the United States Post Office. The Oxford was producing these cards at a rate of 3,000,000 per…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"There was a carding mill operated by Mr. Purvis south of the bridge, near Mr. Mountford's mill, but it crumbled to decay. Mr."

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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… and shipping industries, plus it housed a carding mill, tannery, stave mill, shingle mill, corn and barley gristmills."

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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"… built in 1803, salt factories, shoe factories, carding mills, blacksmith shops, and ice houses. John Elliott built a mill on Lemon Stream at the…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"… cheese and starch making facilities, and wool carding products. Rumford (first known as New Pennacook Township) was visited by the Anasagunticook…"