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Historical Items

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Item 100150

Second Waldoboro Fire Department patch, Waldoboro, ca. 1998

Contributed by: Waldoboro Fire Department Date: circa 1998 Location: Waldoboro Media: Cloth

Item 100115

175th anniversary Fire Department, Waldoboro, 2013

Contributed by: Waldoboro Fire Department Date: 2013-08-10 Location: Waldoboro Media: Photographic print

Item 98798

Fire Department Helmet, Waldoboro, ca. 1950

Contributed by: Waldoboro Fire Department Date: circa 1950 Location: Waldoboro Media: Metal

Tax Records

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Item 35764

Assessor's Record, 11 Brown Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Eastman Bros. & Bancroft Use: Department Store

Item 38581

488-494 Congress Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Charles A. Strout - Trustee Use: Department Store

Item 38586

498 Congress Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Heirs of Dominicus Harmon Use: Department Store

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 116451

U.S. Courthouse alterations, Portland, 1930-1931

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1930–1931 Location: Portland; Portland Client: United States Treasury Department Architect: J. A. Wetmore

Item 109925

Blaine House existing plantings, Augusta, 1987-1988

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1987–1988 Location: Augusta Client: State of Maine Architect: State of Maine Department of Transportation

Item 109993

Eastman Brothers & Bancroft building, Portland, ca. 1887

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1887 Location: Portland Client: Eastman Bros. & Bancroft Architect: Frederick A. Tompson

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Waldoboro Fire Department's 175 Years

While the town of Waldoboro was chartered in 1773, it began organized fire protection in 1838 with a volunteer fire department and a hand pump fire engine, the Water Witch.

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Strike Up the Band

Before the era of recorded music and radio, nearly every community had a band that played at parades and other civic events. Fire departments had bands, military units had bands, theaters had bands. Band music was everywhere.

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Fashionable Maine: early twentieth century clothing

Maine residents kept pace with the dramatic shift in women’s dress that occurred during the short number of years preceding and immediately following World War I. The long restrictive skirts, stiff collars, body molding corsets and formal behavior of earlier decades quickly faded away and the new straight, dropped waist easy-to-wear clothing gave mobility and freedom of movement in tune with the young independent women of the casual, post-war jazz age generation.

Site Pages

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Waldoboro Fire Department

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Presque Isle Fire Department

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Bar Harbor Fire Department

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My Maine Stories

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Restoring the Penobscot River
by John Banks

My role as the Director of the Department of Natural Resources for the Penobscot Indian Nation

Story

A Lifelong Romance with Retail
by George A Smith

Maine's once plentiful small retail stores.

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My Paper Industry career and setting up a museum
by Sherry Judd

I worked in and around the Paper Industry all my life. Now I run Maine's Paper and Heritage Museum.

Lesson Plans

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Bicentennial Lesson Plan

Maine Monochromatic Oceanscape

Grade Level: 6-8 Content Area: Visual & Performing Arts
This lesson plan will give students an overview of the creatures that live in the Gulf of Maine, real and imagined. Students will be able to describe the creatures they learn about, first learning simple art skills, and then combining these simple skills to make an Oceanscape picture that is complex.