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1. 0113a - Negative, Glass Plate

   Hotel Rox at Fortunes Rocks

   Record Type: Photo

   
2. 0113b - Negative, Glass Plate

   Ice cream parlor and bowling alley at Fortunes Rocks

   Record Type: Photo

   
3. 0189 - Negative, Glass Plate

   Merchants Carnival, Biddeford, view showing Shaw's Block and the south side of Main Street towards Jefferson Street, 1909.

   Record Type: Photo

   
4. 0194 - Negative, Glass Plate

   Buildings decorated for the Merchants Carnival along Main Street, Biddeford in October 1909. The Masonic building, Murphy Brothers store, Goodwin's Cafe and the sign for the Goon Sing Co. Laundry are visible, as are the trees in front of McArthur Library. The trolley is Biddeford-Saco R.R. Co. car #12.

   Record Type: Photo

   
5. 0210d - Negative, Glass Plate

   Tercentenary parade, Biddeford, 1916 - Bugbee & Brown Company float - taken in front of house at 256 Elm Street. A horse is fully dressed up, with a hat; a boy rides behind dressed in American flag costume.

   Record Type: Photo

   
6. 0318 - Negative, Glass Plate

   View of Diamond Match Company, Biddeford from the Saco River, 1909.

   Record Type: Photo

   
7. 0478 - Print, Photographic

   Girouard Store, corner of Main Street and Elm Street, Biddeford, circa 1922. Le magasin Girouard etait situe sur la rue Main entre la rue Elm and la voie Ferree [les traques en bon canayen]. L-R: George Benoit; - Houle; Roland Bolduc; Joseph Petit; Andre Lafargue; Francois Girouard, proprietor; un fermier qui echange ses produits pour des effet du magasin; Aline (Gendron) Neveux, cashier and bookkeeper.

   Record Type: Photo

   
8. 0528 - Photograph, Cabinet

   Fighting fire at the City Building and Opera House, Main Street, on December 30-31, 1894. Main Street side of City Building covered in ice as firemen continue to pour water on the ruins. Neighboring buildings and Thacher Hotel are visible, as well as firemen and onlookers. [Also 4x5 BW film copy negative]

   Record Type: Photo

   
9. 0578 - Negative, Sheet Film

   Main Street Biddeford after blizzard of February 18, 1952. The Thacher Hotel and City Building are in the distance. The Biddeford Hardware sign is just visible over the snowbanks.

   Record Type: Photo

   
10. 0581 - Print, Photographic

    Main Street, Biddeford looking towards City Hall, after the blizzard of February 18, 1952. During that storm 20 inches of snow fell, and drifts were 6 to 8 feet high.

    Record Type: Photo

    
11. 0587 - Photograph, Cabinet

    Employees of Townsend Brothers Carriage Manufacturers, 9 Jefferson Street, Biddeford, 1900. The Townsend Brothers manufactured carriages at this location from about 1890 to around 1910. Left to right: David Berry; Fred Watson; Chas. H. Townsend; John Alden Hanson Townsend; George E. Townsend; and Alonzo Kimball.

    Record Type: Photo

    
12. 0590 - Negative, Sheet Film

    Stores in St. John's Building, Main and Elm Streets, Biddeford, 1900. O. Nadeau's storefront and a horse drawn coach (funeral coach) are visible. Also visible is the house that stood immediately next door, with fancy gothic wood trim.

    Record Type: Photo

    
13. 0591 - Print, Photographic

    The "Marble Block" and neighboring buildings, Main Street, Biddeford, 1890. This building was built by O.H. Staples of Biddeford, and is also known in the modern era as the "Reny's Building" as well as Marble Block; it had a large Masonic Hall on the 3rd floor. Next door on the right is the 3 story brick "Hooper's Block" (91-97 Main Street) -- Hooper's also had a hall on the 3rd floor, albeit much smaller; to the left was a smaller wooden buildin...

    Record Type: Photo

    
14. 0615 - Print, Photographic

    Mr and Mrs Henry Goshen, Biddeford, circa 1915. Henry Goshen was the proprietor of the Bijou photographic studio at 119 Main Street, Biddeford, from about 1912 to 1925. The photograph was given to the library by another long-time Biddeford photographer, Lawrence Dolby.

    Record Type: Photo

    
15. 0618b - Print, Photographic

    Launch "Tremblay" on the Saco River, 1918. Biddeford waterfront in background. Visible is the hull of schooner "Jere G. Shaw" on ways while being built at the Biddeford Shipyard and the power plant on Water Street.

    Record Type: Photo

    
16. 0618c - Print, Photographic

    Saco River's Biddeford shoreline, 1918. Visible is the frame of schooner "Jere G. Shaw" on ways in the shipyard; the schooner was the last one built in Biddeford.

    Record Type: Photo

    
17. 0627 - Print, Photographic

    Employees in front of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A&P), 64 Alfred Street, circa 1918. One of 3 A&P's in Biddeford at the time, this was in the Mahaney Block on the corner of Alfred Street and Jefferson Street, circa 1918. Three employees, two men and one woman, are unidentified.

    Record Type: Photo

    
18. 0627a - Print, Photographic

    Interior of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A&P) store and employees, Alfred Street and Jefferson Street, Biddeford, circa 1918. The employees are unidentified. This A&P, one of 3 in Biddeford at the time (the other two were on either end of Main Street), was located in the newly built brick Mahaney Block.

    Record Type: Photo

    
19. 0633 - Stereograph

    Looking from Main Street and Alfred Street, towards Bacon Street, circa 1870. "The Alfred Street business district, as can be seen from the trees in the background, then ended at Bacon and Jefferson Streets. The church steeple was the Methodist church at the corner of Bacon and Alfred Streets, where the Central Theatre now stands. In 1870 the Methodist congregation built a new church (the present Foss Street Methodist Church) and the old building...

    Record Type: Photo

    
20. 0633a - Print

    Atkinson House Furnishing Co., Alfred Street at the corner of Bacon Street, Biddeford, circa 1890. Illustration from an unknown source shows Atkinson furniture, with the windows of the I.O.O.F. Block visible across Bacon Street. This building was the original Methodist Church, prior to the Foss Street location.

    Record Type: Photo