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Maine State Library & Museum. Augusta, ME. | Lion Locomotive (1846) pulled lumber to sawmills for nearly fifty years in Maine State Museum. Augusta, ME. | Lion Locomotive details of drive wheels in Maine State Museum. Augusta, ME. | Gasoline Lombard log hauler first introduced as steam-powered machine in 1901 which revolutionized the lumber industry in Maine State Museum. Augusta, ME. |
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Alvin O. Lombard invented the moving track in 1901 for his log hauler which today serves on tractors & military vehicles. Augusta, ME. | Early vertical saw mill mechanism in Maine State Museum. Augusta, ME. | Clapboard saw (c1850), invented by Robert Eastman & Josiah Jaquith in 1820, changed production of building cladding from splitting trees with an ax to rip-cutting logs held on a radial axis in Maine State Museum. Augusta, ME. | Mannequin fixing ship's rigging in Maine State Museum. Augusta, ME. |
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Products of Maine's sardine industry in Maine State Museum. Augusta, ME. | Ice box before refrigerators were invented in Maine State Museum. Augusta, ME. | Equipment used in cutting ice blocks for use in refrigeration when ice was still obtained from lakes in Maine State Museum. Augusta, ME. | Crane for lifting granite blocks in quarry industry in Maine State Museum. Augusta, ME. |
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Antique carriage for carrying granite blocks in Maine State Museum. Augusta, ME. | Early industrial loom in Maine State Museum. Augusta, ME. | Cobblers bench & tools in Maine State Museum. Augusta, ME. | Rawnsley Runabout automobile (1904-5) in Maine State Museum. Augusta, ME. |
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Side view of Runabout made in Maine by Hollon Rawnsley in Maine State Museum. Augusta, ME. | Burrowes Model-E Tourabout (1908) by E.T. Burrowes Co. of Portland in Maine State Museum. Augusta, ME. | Ceramic containers (1854-5) (cream pot & jug) by Ballard & Brothers, Gardener, ME, in Maine State Museum. Augusta, ME. | Preserve pots (c1815-78) by Thomas T. Kendrick of Hollis Center, ME, in Maine State Museum. Augusta, ME. |
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Stoneware pottery (c1835-50) by Orcutt & Crafts of Portland, ME, in Maine State Museum. Augusta, ME. | Baked bean pot (1891-7) by E. Swasey & Co. in Maine State Museum. Augusta, ME. | Glass collection in Maine State Museum. Augusta, ME. | Collection of glass oil lamps in Maine State Museum. Augusta, ME. |
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Clear glass pitcher (c1813-30) signed H. Lilley probably by a South Boston firm in Maine State Museum. Augusta, ME. | Amberina glass champagne pitcher & tumblers (c1883-8) probably by New England Glass Works, Cambridge, MA, in Maine State Museum. Augusta, ME. | Marbled pressed glass (c1886-91) probably by Challinor, Taylor & Co. Tarentum, PA, in Maine State Museum. Augusta, ME. | Chocolate glass mustard pot in shape of fish (1900-3) by Charles E. Beam of Indiana Tumbler & Goblet Co., Greentown, IN, in Maine State Museum. Augusta, ME. |
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Pressed Carnival-glass pitcher (1911) by Fenton Art Glass Company, Williamstown, WV, in Maine State Museum. Augusta, ME. | Green engraved Console set of bowl & covered glasses (1918-38) made in Czechoslovakia copying antique Bohemian design in Maine State Museum. Augusta, ME. | Ruby-stained souvenir glass (1875-1910) which was engraved by local craftsmen with names of visitors to fairs or tourist attractions in Maine State Museum. Augusta, ME. | Congressional Medal of Honor awarded to Moses C. Hanscom in 1864 cast by Wm. Wilson & Son of Philadelphia in Maine State Museum. Augusta, ME. |