Bangor is a city that has grown in many ways since Jacob Buswell and his family, the first white settlers, built their log cabin by the Penobscot River in 1769. Over the course of the nineteenth century, Bangor developed into a cosmopolitan center of Maine, but to this day it retains some of the proud characteristics of a town that was once the lumbering capital of the world. Collected in this fascinating visual history are over 200 photographs that together reflect the city's rich and diverse history. The photographs show more than a century of change, with stirring images of four-masted schooners in the harbor, of log drives, of floods, and of fires. People fill the book: Amelia Earhart and Presidents Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Nixon, and Kennedy pictured on visit; the Brady Gang, shot by the FBI in 1937 as the nation's most wanted criminals; and especially the hardworking men and women who built Bangor into the Queen City of the East.
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With this book, Richard R. Shaw has created a wonderful tribute to not only the people who worked and played here but also the amazing and daring photographers who froze images so that we could better understand what came before us. It will appeal both to those interested in local history and to those who simply enjoy a nostalgic trip down memory lane.
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The City Of Baneor docked in the Penobscot River in the 1920s. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Main Street, World War, Bangor Daily News, Exchange Street, Penobscot River, State Street, Bangor House, Hammond Street, City Hall, Bangor Auditorium, Bangor-Brewer Bridge, Broad Street, Dow Air Force Base, Central Street, Civil War, Kenduskeag Stream, Pickering Square, Union Station, Washington Street, Amelia Earhart, Bon Ton, Freese's Department Store, Hannibal Hamlin, Harlow Street, United States New!
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The City Of Baneor docked in the Penobscot River in the 1920s. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Main Street, World War, Bangor Daily News, Exchange Street, Penobscot River, State Street, Bangor House, Hammond Street, City Hall, Bangor Auditorium, Bangor-Brewer Bridge, Broad Street, Dow Air Force Base, Central Street, Civil War, Kenduskeag Stream, Pickering Square, Union Station, Washington Street, Amelia Earhart, Bon Ton, Freese's Department Store, Hannibal Hamlin, Harlow Street, United States New!
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- Main Street (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics) by Sinclair Lewis on page 45
- The Great Depression (Lives in Crisis) by R. G. Grant on page 59
- South Carolina (Portrait of America) by Kathleen Thompson on page 100
- The Day the White Whales Came to Bangor by Gerald Hausman on page 23
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