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Item 12455
Waldo Clark farm, Sherman Mills, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1930 Location: Sherman Mills Media: Photographic print
Item 17948
Ford model 8N, Littleton, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Merlin Morse through Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1950 Location: Littleton Media: Steel
Exhibit
Women at the turn of the 20th century were increasingly involved in paid work outside the home. For wage-earning women in the Old Port section of Portland, the jobs ranged from canning fish and vegetables to setting type. A study done in 1907 found many women did not earn living wages.
Exhibit
Following his historic flight across the Atlantic in May 1927, aviator Charles Lindbergh commenced a tour across America, greeted by cheering crowds at every stop. He was a day late for his speaking engagement in Portland, due to foggy conditions. Elise Fellows White wrote in her diary about seeing Lindbergh and his plane.
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Belles Early apple, Bangor, 1864
"… 2 1866 Adas Tree had 125 apples of this color and average size, some were larger and a few smaller." Martin (1823-1904), an accountant and…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 2 of 3
"Carroll's Auto Sales Back then an average truck cost about $1,700 dollars. One time the potato service bought about 25 farm trucks at once and…"
Story
Warming Oceans
by David Reidmiller, Gulf of Maine Research Institute
The rate of warming in the Gulf of Maine is faster than that of more than 95% of the world’s oceans
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The Wall
by Michael Uhl
What it means to have beaten the odds
