Showing posts with label maine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label maine. Show all posts

Saturday, July 2, 2016

Stereoview Portrait of a Group Posing With an Ox-Drawn Wagon Named Milliken’s Lightning in a Street in Biddeford, Maine (1800's)


Stereoview portrait of an unidentified group posing with an ox-drawn wagon named Milliken’s Lightning in a street in Biddeford, Maine. The wagon was possibly owned by an express company and the people possibly employees of the company. By B. F. Cole.

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Friday, May 29, 2015

People Posing Around the USS Constitution as it is Being Overhauled at the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine (1858)


People posing around the USS Constitution as it is being overhauled at the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine, May 27, 1858. Believed to be the oldest known photograph of the USS Constitution. By Albert Gregory.

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Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Photographs of Spectators Viewing a Derailed Train in Bangor, Maine (1871)





The interior of one of the train cars.


Photographs of spectators viewing the wreckage of a derailed train in Bangor, Maine, 1871. By A. K. Dole. Animated stereoview.

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Sunday, April 13, 2014

The Prince of Wales in Maine


The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, riding in a carriage (center right, looking at camera) with his entourage during his visit to the United States in Portland, Maine, 1860. The trip marked the first time a heir to the British throne step foot in North America. By George Stacy. Animated stereoview.

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