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Bangor Hydro Electric News: March 1940: Volume 10, No.3, Electrical Department Issue
Get PDFHighlights operations and innovations of the electrical department staff and engineers. Pages 6-7 show a legend indicating all of the generating stations, substations, division offices, and retail stores of Bangor Hydro Electric Company.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/bangorhydro_news/1008/thumbnail.jp
USS Kickapoo in front of the Eastern Steamship Co Terminal
No full textA view of the U. S. Coast Guard ship WAGL-56 USS Kickapoo on the Penobscot River, in front of the Eastern Steamship Co terminal in Bangor, Maine. 157\u27 class Tug/Icebreaker/Buoy Tender: Displacement: 848 tons Length: 157\u274 Beam: 35\u27 Draft: 14\u276 Speed: 11.5 knots Armament: None Complement: 1 officer, 3 warrants, 36 enlisted Triple-expansion steam engine, single screw, 1,000 hp Built at Bethlehem Steel, Elizabeth Port, N.J., and commissioned 21 January 1922
During World War II, Kickapoo was assigned to 1st District, stationed at Buzzards Bay, Mass. and Rockland, Me. She was used for ice-breaking and general aids to navigation duty.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangorwaterfront_images/1003/thumbnail.jp
Bangor Hydro Electric News: August 1940: Volume 10, No.8: Penobscot Transportation Company
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Electric car service to Hampden should not become history without some word on the impromptu, farewell party accorded car No. 10 on the last trip Saturday night, July 27th [1940].
During the day there bad been casual conversations around the Hydro, Are you going to see the last car off for Hampden? Do you realize that it was nearly forty-three years ago that Charlie Johnson ran the first street car to Hampden and that Charlie is going to take the last car down to Hampden tonight? But, there were few that said they\u27d surely be at the waiting room on Post Office Sq. 11 P.M. on Saturday night.
An early arrival however saw two good-looking gentlemen in earnest conversation in the waiting room. None other than Charlie Smith, now retired, in conversation with Edwin Carvell, also retired. Mr. Carvell joined the Hydro as motorman on April 7th 1894, and Mr. Smith was conductor on the first car to Hampden on Dec. 1st, 1897, with Charlie Johnson ae motorman.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/bangorhydro_news/1000/thumbnail.jp
USS Kickapoo, bow view
No full textBow view of the U.S. Coast Guard ship WAGL-56 USS Kickapoo on the Penobscot River. 157\u27 class Tug/Icebreaker/Buoy Tender: Displacement: 848 tons Length: 157\u274 Beam: 35\u27 Draft: 14\u276 Speed: 11.5 knots Armament: None Complement: 1 officer, 3 warrants, 36 enlisted Triple-expansion steam engine, single screw, 1,000 hp Built at Bethlehem Steel, Elizabeth Port, N.J., and commissioned 21 January 1922
During World War II, Kickapoo was assigned to 1st District, stationed at Buzzards Bay, Mass. and Rockland, Me. She was used for ice-breaking and general aids to navigation duty.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangorwaterfront_images/1002/thumbnail.jp
Bangor Hydro Electric News: April 1940: Volume 10, No.4, Hydraulic Maintenance Issue
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It may be of interest to our readers to know that the duties of the Hydraulic Maintenance crew carry them, occasionally, to the more remote sections of our territory where we maintain and operate storage dams. One of Mr. [Fred] Murphy\u27s duties is to make a periodic trip to three remote storage dams on the Piscataquis River namely, Schoodic, Seboois, and Endless Dams. There are no travelled ways to these dams and he makes the trip on foot, carrying with him a pack and camping out in the woods over night. These trips take anywhere from three days to a week, depending on the work required and weather conditions.
Many photographs show hydraulic equipment used in the late 1930s, early 1940s by the company as well as on-location photos at Treworgy Dam at Ellsworth Falls, Veazie, and in Milford.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/bangorhydro_news/1007/thumbnail.jp
Bangor Public Library Annual Report 1940
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U.S. Army -- Guardian of the Colors -- United States Army Recruiting Service
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The Bangor Hydro-Electric News: April 1939, featuring Fiftieth Anniversary of Bangor Street Railway
Get PDFProvides a detailed and photographic history of the origins of the Bangor Street Railway from the original meetings in 1887 of city government to pursue the railway, to the 1889 introduction of the railway (the second such street railway in the U.S.), to expansion in the 1890s.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1215/thumbnail.jp
Tanglewood Camp, The New Bangor-Brewer Young Women\u27s Christian Association Camp 1939
Get PDFA promotional booklet for Tanglewood Camp located in Lincolnville, Maine, for the summer of 1939.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1370/thumbnail.jp
Bangor Hydro Electric News: February 1939: Volume 9, No.2, Collection Department Issue
Get PDFCovers the operations of the collection department, including the process for disconnection of electric service. $2.00 would be charged for reconnection of electricitiy.
Issue also includes a safety program in Millinocket, a photo array of Milford employees from the late 19th century, the grand opening of an office in Bar Harbor, and more.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/bangorhydro_news/1017/thumbnail.jp