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The Cole Family of businesses, Serving ME. & N.E. for 72 years
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Booklet
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • People
  • Galen L. Cole
  • 7/14/1989
  • Maine
Description:
A booklet containing an address, dealing with the history of Coles Express & A. J. Cole & sons, was delivered at a "1989 Maine meeting of the Newcomen Society held in Bangor". Scan: Cover, first pages only.
William Patch Dickey at W.P. Dickey & Co., Bangor, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • People
  • Maine
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
William Patch Dickey is standing next to the desk in his prodigiously stocked hardware store on Broad Street in Bangor, Maine. Among the items shown for sale are: H & B pocket knives made by William L. Humason, Sr., who founded the Humason & Beckley Manufacturing Company of New Britain, Connecticut, in 1853. The company produced fine pocket cutlery, corkscrews and other hardware. Kerosene lamps of every description – hanging from the ceiling Chamois – hanging from the ceiling Many varieties of thermometers hanging in a row from the ceiling Shotguns and other knives Feather dusters String and a cast iron string holder A model of the Eiffel tower A small, portable steam engine, possibly a toy Chain and twine A beautiful wind-up alarm clock with a bell on top Cow bells Pratt & Lambert’s “Faultless Varnishes" Boxes of sleigh bells and shaft bells Glass. Mr. Dickey’s female clerk, carefully dressed in an apron with her hair put up in a bun, is standing at the desk. Items seen on the desk are: W.P. Dickey & Co. invoices neatly held by a painted tin box stenciled “Bill-Heads" Glass Ink pots Standard Liquid Glue A leather-bound ledger Steel-nibbed pens Rubber stamps [show more]
Children Cutting Sardines at the Fish Factory, Echo Bluffs, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Art, Drawing
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • People
  • Brand - Edith Browning (Brand) Hannah (1875-1947)
  • 1904
  • Maine
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
The illustration by Edith Brand appears on page 110 in "A Case of Sardines: A Story of the Maine Coast" by Charles Poole Cleaves, The Pilgrim Press, 1904. A sentimental novel that includes descriptions of the lives of those employed by sardine factories on the coast of Maine. The town of Echo Bluffs is fictional.