Keywords: stack
Item 14105
Brewer Public Library - Stack Room, 1911
Contributed by: Brewer Public Library Date: 1911 Location: Brewer Media: Postcard
Item 8610
Vomit stack condenser ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Portland Media: Photoprint
Item 60046
120-122 Lancaster Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Richard E. Stack Use: Dwelling - Two family
Exhibit
Lewiston, Maine's second largest city, was long looked upon by many as a mill town with grimy smoke stacks, crowded tenements, low-paying jobs, sleazy clubs and little by way of refinement, except for Bates College. Yet, a noted Québec historian, Robert Rumilly, described it as "the French Athens of New England."
Exhibit
Educating Oneself: Carnegie Libraries
Industrialist Andrew Carnegie gave grants for 20 libraries in Maine between 1897 and 1912, specifying that the town own the land, set aside funds for maintenance, have room to expand -- and offer library services at no charge.
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Natural Resource to Finished Product
"… wagon house, storehouse, boiler-house with stack and a rail siding. Workers produced building stones, paving stones and statuary and monuments."
Site Page
"… bought—by another proprietor clinging to a stack of conflicting deeds. Above all, settlers feared that they might be forced into tenancy or wage…"
Story
A Lifelong Romance with Retail
by George A Smith
Maine's once plentiful small retail stores.
Story
I have thought about Vietnam almost every day for 48 years
by Ted Heselton
Working as a heavy equipment operator in Vietnam