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Category: Economics, Manufacturing, Equipment

Historical Items

These results include photographs, documents, letters, paintings, artifacts, and many other kinds of Maine related items from collections around the state and elsewhere.


Item 7998

Lathe at the Portland Company, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Portland Media: Photoprint

Item 8945

Sargent snow loader, Portland, 1927

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1927 Location: Portland Media: Photoprint

Item 15568

W.T. Kilborn Co., Portland, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative

Item 15877

Sanford Mills Boiler Room

Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Sanford Media: Print from glass negative

Item 8004

Interior of a shop at the Portland Company, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Portland Media: Photoprint

Item 8069

Erecting shop, Portland Co., ca. 1890

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Portland Media: Photoprint

Item 8070

Machine shop, Portland Company, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Portland Media: Photoprint

Item 8071

Machine shop, Portland Company, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Portland Media: Photoprint

Item 8072

Machine shop, Portland Co., ca. 1890

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Portland Media: Photoprint

Item 8076

Interior view of metalworking area, Portland Co., ca. 1890

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Portland Media: Photoprint

Item 8081

Erecting shop, Portland Company, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Portland Media: Photoprint

Item 8926

Freight elevator, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Portland Media: Photoprint

Item 8937

Sargent snowloader, Portland, 1927

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1927 Location: Portland Media: Photoprint

Item 8939

Mead-Morrison tractor, Portland, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Portland; Portland Media: Photoprint

Item 11912

900 Horsepower Engine for the East Hampton, ca. 1913

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1913 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 15234

Potato Starch Factory, c. 1965

Contributed by: Oakfield Historical Society Date: circa 1965 Media: Photographic print

Item 15860

Sanford Mills Boiler Room

Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative

Item 28923

Double Lion Chop Mark, Biddeford, ca. 1880

Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: circa 1880 Location: Biddeford Media: Wood, metal

Item 28929

Beaver Chop Mark, Pepperell Manufacturing, Biddeford, ca. 1880

Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: circa 1880 Location: Biddeford Media: Wood, metal

Item 36054

Textile bobbin stripping machine, Biddeford, ca. 1960

Contributed by: Biddeford Historical Society Date: circa 1960 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 74512

Transatlantic cable fragment, ca. 1865

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1865 Media: Copper, brass, hemp

Item 74523

Electric meter seal crimper, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Media: Metal

Item 74524

Crimped lead seal, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Media: Lead

Item 75140

Paper machines and scrap paper, Brewer, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Folklife Center, Univ. of Maine Date: circa 1920 Location: Brewer Media: Photographic print