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Tuesday, February 21, 2017

1951 building bridge across Merrimack River by Chain Bridge & Salisbury Point

Stearns Family Photo Collection “Building new bridge across Merrimack R by Chain Bridge & Salisbury point Nov 11, 1951. Salisbury Pt in distance”

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MAN WITH A TWINKLE IN HIS EYES AND A VERY BUSHY UNDERBEARD IN WASHINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA - A gentle looking man with a bushy underbeard and sparkling eyes poses for his portrait at the Rothwell studio in Washington, Pennsylvania. This fellow’s wo...
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The 1845 Jacob A. Conover House - 735 Washington Street - *photograph by the author* Grocer Charles Crane's store and residence were located at 734 and 736 Washington Street in 1844 when Richard Halliday's est...
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Cause of Liberty

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Thomas Gardner of Salem, MA

Nobel, Medicine, 2024 - TL;DR -- This is the third of three gifts from the Nobel Committee. Starting with the math of machine learning and then with the chemistry work with prot...
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Christopher Setterlund, In My Footsteps

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OLD PHOTOS FOUND

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Grape School in 1901 with George, Guy and Harry Doty Attending - From the Evening News, March 9, 1963. Pictured are my great-grandfather, George Doty, from Raisinville, Michigan, and his brothers, Harry and Guy. Th...
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My Great Grandparents FRANK R BROWN & MARY ETTA KENNEDY An Archive of Photos from the Apollo Mine, Unga Island Alaska PART THREE - Here is a continuation of my archive of photos from the Apollo Mine, Unga Island, Alaska. This part of the collection is circa 1894-1900. Some originals...
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West in New England

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Scramlin --- What a Difference Time Makes -- Using Google Photos - I used Google to search my surname Scramlin images on April 26, 2004. As you can see, from the above print, only seven images appeared. Fortunately, ther...
William & Mary Dyer

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1835 Letter from E. Richardson, Cashier at Bangor Commercial Bank, Bangor, Maine; to C. Dole, Cashier at Citizens Bank in Augusta, Maine; Richardson is Resigning to become Cashier at Bank of Portland, Maine - August 17, 1835 letter from Edward Richardson (1809-1876), Cashier at *Bangor Commercial Bank* in *Bangor, Maine*, to *Carleton Dole (1798-1870)*, Cashier ...
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Russell's Cabins, 1950 - During the period between the 1930s and 1950s, before motels became popular, tourists passing through Middleborough were provided accommodation in overnigh...
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My Maine Ancestry

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The Northeast House Historian

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Digging Down East

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1951 building bridge across Merrimack River by Chain Bridge & Salisbury Point

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