Description: Originally founded as Houlton Academy in 1848, the school was renamed the Ricker Classical Institute in 1887. It was a secondary school until 1934 when it added a 6th year and became Ricker Junior College. In 1949, it became a 4-year liberal arts college until it closed in 1978
Description: Ralph Stanley and Richard (Dick) Dudman, who Ralph had just finished building the Friendship Sloop Freedom for, during the Friendship Sloop Regatta held every year in Rockland, Maine.
Description: The East Maine Conference Seminary was established in 1851 by the East Maine Conference of the United Methodist Church as a preparatory school for boys and girls. The school was located on Oak Hill, north of Franklin Street, Bucksport, Maine.
Description: Left to Right: Genevieve R. Reed (1914-) Florence M. Reed (1908-) Genevieve and Florence were two of the daughters of Almond G. Reed and his wife, Margaret. Genevieve was born in 1914 in Ellsworth, Maine. Florence was born there in 1908. Florence married Mr. Jude. This photograph was sent to their uncle, Howard Milton Reed (1876-1958). Genevieve and Florence were grandnieces of Nathan Adam Reed.
Description: Pickering Square is bordered by Water Street and Merchants Plaza in downtown Bangor between Main Street and the Kenduskeag Stream. Now succumbed to urban renewal, historically it was the site of an open air market.
Description: The Hugh C. Leighton Company was a major publisher of view-cards, particularly New England views. They printed in four distinct styles most often employing tinted halftones. "Picture postcards helped spread information about [Maine's] beauty and points of interest, and it was a Portland man who first brought such postcards to the United States."