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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Sports

"The Portland Press Herald Glass Plate Collection contains many examples of sports photography, from high school sports to photographs of famous…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Icons & Influencers

"The Portland Evening Express was a Maine pioneer in this new publication style. The paper began featuring photographs under owner Colonel Fred Dow…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection

"The Evening Express had the largest circulation in the city, and leveraged this by charging exorbitant advertising rates."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Along the Waterfront

"… X The Portland Press Herald and the Evening Express ran a regular column on what was going on on Portland's busy working waterfront entitled…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Aerial Photography

"… followed in 1925 with the purchase the Portland Evening Express, which allowed him to combine two passions: photography and aviation."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Man on the Street"

"… Historical Society/MaineToday Media The Portland Evening Express ran a regular article called “We Have With Us”, and “With Us Today”, which…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Aviation

"… aviators was always a big topic in the Evening Express and Press Herald newspapers. Guy Gannett and his father were avid aviators and followed…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Allies & Allegiance: Military comradery at the Centennial, 1920

"The Portland Evening Express documented the week’s Centennial events, highlighting a plethora of activities."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 1 of 2

"… Like contemporary news coverage, the Portland Evening Express and Press Herald covered crime and disaster vehemently, and often promoted it on the…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs

"Club, visited Portland in July 1925 for the annual convention. Many guests arrived over the weekend by train at the Grand Trunk Station on India…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans"

"… Society/Mainetoday Media From 1922 to 1945, the Portland Public Schools offered daytime "Americanization" classes for adult and school-aged…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 2 of 2

"… & Disaster This was the fourth school fire in Portland in 1921 and was of unknown origin. It started in the library, which did not have a…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - 1925 National Governors' Association Convention

"… staff were welcomed at the Maine State Pier in Portland with “Guns, Whistles, and Trumpets”. The guns were fired from Ft."

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

"The name "New" Portland was thus due to its roots to the original Portland. People came to live there in 1783, but the town was officially…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Wiscasset's Arctic Connection

"Wiscasset's Arctic Connection Schooner Bowdoin, backing off the pier, Wiscasset, 1926 View the Wiscasset's Arctic Connection Slide Show Text…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Bootleggers vs. Police

"… with Bullets on Brunswick Road Portland Evening Express, October 16, 1934 Even after Repeal the illegal liquor traffic continued to thrive."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Drinking: Elegance and Debauchery

"… complains of the serenades of the Night Band, and expresses a willingness to turn out and help put its members in a horse pond."

Architecture & Landscape database - Frederick A. Tompson

"… age of 61, Tompson was eulogized by the Portland Evening Express on February 3, 1919 as “a courteous and affable friend, neighbor, and companion…"

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"… Bangor Public Library Knickerbocker Express, ca. 1938Bangor Public Library Bangor was one of the first places in the country to have a…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Maine State documents and Proclamations

"… in 2010, the 124th Legislature of Maine formally expressed “profound regret” for the eviction of the Malaga residents nearly a hundred years prior."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Elusive Championship

"… by Bob Hawes X Have you ever heard of the expression “Things happen”? “History happens” could be quite a popular saying, too, because…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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