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Souvenir Program 1902 Grand Auspices of Combined Labor Organizations Labor Day
Get PDFContains the official directory of local unions located in Bangor, Maine, as of Monday, September 1, 1902. Advertisements for local businesses are included. A parade occurred that day, running from Up Main to High, to Hammond, to State, to Exchange, to Washington, to Oak and Broadway, to Otis, countermarch to Park View Ave., circle Chapin Park where a rest of 15 minutes will be made for refreshments. Take up line of march down Forest Avenue to State, to Harlow, to Central, to Main, to Maplewood Park, where the parade will be dismissed.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1357/thumbnail.jp
Queen City of the East
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Bangor, Maine, the Queen City of the East, a city of surpassing natural beauty and advantages, enhanced by many magnificent buildings, artistic homes, and handsome lawns, is universally recognized as the business center of Eastern Maine, and is rapidly coming to the front as the Metropolis of the Northeast.
Bangor had its birth in 1769, when John Buswell, a sturdy Massachusetts farmer, brought his wife and nine children into the Maine forests and located at the junction of the Kenduskeag and Penobscot Rivers, near the present site of St.John\u27s Catholic Church. Each succeeding year saw new families added to the little flock in the wilderness, until at the breaking out of the Revolutionary War, Kenduskeag Plantation, as it was then called, numbered 75 souls. On February 25, 1791, the Rev. Seth Noble had the town incorporated under the name of Bangor, from the title of an old, familiar hymn, and in 1834 the town became a city with a population of about 8000.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1081/thumbnail.jp
Broad Street Flooding, Bangor, Maine, March or April 1902
No full textFlooding on Broad Street, Bangor, Maine, circa late March or early April 1902. Visible is 78 Broad Street which was N.H. Bragg & Sons iron, steel, hardware, and more.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_flood_1902/1003/thumbnail.jp
Flood Waters on the Penobscot River from the Bangor-Brewer Flood of 1902, Number 1
No full textPhotograph presumed to be from the Bangor side of the Penobscot River.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_flood_1902/1014/thumbnail.jp
Train Tracks Flooded
No full textExact street location unknown, presumably on the Bangor side. Shows a train track flooded adjacent to the Penobscot River as a result of the late March 1902 flooding in Bangor and Brewer, Maine.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_flood_1902/1012/thumbnail.jp
Covered Bridge Damage
No full textThe middle section of the covered bridge over the Penobscot River between Bangor and Brewer has collapsed from the late March 1902 flood. A large group of people are seen in one half of the remaining bridge from the other side of the river.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_flood_1902/1011/thumbnail.jp
Flooded Railroad, Bangor, 1902
No full textAs the Penobscot floods its banks in 1902 the railroads are flooded.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/railroad_structures_img/1002/thumbnail.jp
Three able addresses delivered before the State Board of Trade at Bangor, Maine, March 25th, 1902
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Maine canning industry / B.M. Fernald
Maine as a vacation state / Leroy T. Carleton
Maine primitive and modern industry / J.W. Penneyhttps://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1062/thumbnail.jp
Wrecked Bridges, Bangor, Maine, Penobscot River, March 21, 1902
No full textDepicts initial damage to the Bangor-Brewer Bridge as a result of flooding of the Penobscot River in March 1902. Bridge would collapse days after this photograph.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_flood_1902/1006/thumbnail.jp
In the Maine Woods: 1902 Edition (Title: In Pine Tree Jungles)
Get PDFKipling has told us much about the tangled jungles of the far East; Stanley has sent out glowing accounts of jungle life in Darkest Africa; now why not turn for a while to jungles nearer home -- to the greatest sporting and recreation ground in all America -- the widespread pine-tree jungles of northern Maine? Here is sport unbounded; fisherman and huntsman are equally blessed, and bountifully. Or, if one comes merely for the good which an untrammelled forest existence can do him, he gets rejuvenation and health in fullest measure, and in a most delightful way.
Should the reader wonder what there can be about the Maine woods that is so universally attractive, he can best satisfy his curiosity by an actual visit to this sylvan paradise. Let him join the great army of autumnal sojourners who slip away annually from the cares and problems of city life and dive deep into the great Maine forests.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/railroad_pubs/1025/thumbnail.jp