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Main and Cedar Street, Bangor Maine, 1926 #3
No full textThe corner of Main Street and Cedar Street, Bangor Maine, 1926. Shown are the Davenport Park, home of the U.S.S. Maine Battleship Monument, the advertising sign for the Bangor Motor Company at 225 Main Street, (rising behind the trees) St. Mary\u27s Church at 38 Cedar Street, and Fifield & Co., a druggist, located at 263 Main Street (see also: https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_images/50/). Fifield & Co. is the current home of the Bangor Area Homeless Shelter.
This photograph is part of a donation given to the library by the Bangor Hydro Electric Company. The back of the photograph says 1926. We opt to trust this date as being accurate.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_images/1154/thumbnail.jp
Corner of Main and Cedar Street, Bangor Maine, 1926 #1
No full textThe corner of Main Street and Cedar Street, Bangor Maine, 1926. Shown are the Davenport Park, home of the U.S.S. Maine Battleship Monument, a small corner of the Bangor Motor Company at 225 Main Street, and the front of St. Mary\u27s Church at 38 Cedar Street. On Cedar Street, a man or horse-drawn carriage is followed by an automobile.
This photograph is part of a donation given to the library by the Bangor Hydro Electric Company. The back of the photograph says 1926. We opt to trust this date as being accurate.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_images/1152/thumbnail.jp
Report of Special Committee of American Bankers Association on Railroad Consolidation
Get PDFReport a product of the Fifty-Second Annual Convention of the American Bankers Association, held October 4-7, 1926, in Los Angeles, Californiahttps://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1175/thumbnail.jp
Maine Railroads: A History of the Development of the Maine Railroad System
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The builders of Maine have been forgotten. The inspirational traditions which form the background of the recorded history of Maine have their sources in war and in politics. The younger generation, whose future must depend so largely upon the solution of economic problems, has been deprived of knowledge of the experience of its ancestors by the omission from Maine education, and, indeed, from Maine history, of accurate information bearing on the economic development of Maine. This volume, entitled, Maine Railroads, has been prepared in response to this apparent need.
The railroad men of today will probably find this book of little practical value in their work. I have avoided the use of statistics and have consciously neglected the background of contemporary economic factors necessary for an expert understanding of railroad history. My purpose has been to prepare for the people of Maine a short story of Maine railroads, a story containing no more than an intelligent citizen of Maine ought to know.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1076/thumbnail.jp
In the Maine Woods: 1926 Edition
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Some day after enough annual editions of the ever delightful booklet, In the Maine Woods have been published, the citizens of Maine and of other states will realize that Bangor is the gateway to 10,000,000 acres of teeming woodland dotted with lakes and streams and to one of the richest agricultural counties to be found in the United States. From Mount Katahdin this great empire can be surveyed reaching to the edge of the world on every side .https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/railroad_pubs/1022/thumbnail.jp
The story of Orr\u27s Island, Maine
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Many years ago, when I was happy to be able to pass the summers on Orr\u27s Island, it interested me to try to learn something of its history and of the life of the inhabitants. Therefore I collected a number of facts from public records, and talking with the older people on the island gave me many interesting details. The following pages, though by no means all that I gleaned, contain what is thought may interest those now living on the island either as permanent residents or as summer visitors.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1061/thumbnail.jp
Bangor: The Center of Maine
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History gives the distinction of Bangor\u27s first settler to Jacob Buswell who, in 1769, built a log hut near the present site of St. John\u27s Catholic Church. Among the French and Indians, Bangor was known variously as Kadesquit, Conduskeag and, later, Kenduskeag. In 1776 there were some 75 persons, adults and children, resident in Kenduskeag Plantation, the settlement being in the neighborhood of Penjejawock stream, near Mt. Hope Cemetery. Following the close of the Revolutionary War, more settlers arrived and with them was the first pastor, Reverend Seth Noble, a native of Westfield, Mass.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1238/thumbnail.jp
Planning the School Library
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The school librarian should be your best adviser. Employ a well-trained one before you start building. Put her in touch with your architect and see that they work together. Consult also with the supervisor of libraries in your state department of education, with the librarian of your state, county or city library, or with the American Library Association, 86 East Randolph Street, Chicago, Illinois.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1176/thumbnail.jp