Category: Transportation, Road
Item 1134
Main Street, Limestone, ca. 1945
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1945 Location: Limestone Media: Photographic print
Item 1162
Main Street, Mars Hill, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1950 Location: Mars Hill Media: Photographic print
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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
The novelty of organized auto racing came to Maine in 1911 with a hill-climbing event in Poland and speed racing at Old Orchard Beach. Drivers and cars came from all over New England for these events.
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4
Historical Overview Map of Scarborough with MarshlandItem Contributed byScarborough Historical Society & Museum Scarborough: They Called it…