Bangor Public Library Digital Commons

03/03/2022

Bangor was home to Dow Field, known by varying names, from 1927 to 1968. The Dow Field Observer was the (mostly) weekly publication of military personnel stationed there during World War I.

Includes a lengthy profile on S/SGT. Grant F. Walsh, another article profiles base PX worker and Bangor native Charlie Share, a detailed story about the 135th Squadron of the 6th Wing of the Army Airways Communications -- completed with brief biographies of several officers, and a full page write-up...

02/16/2022

Recent upload to the DC:

https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/railroad_pubs/49/

These publications courtesy of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad served as pamphlets touting the recreational activities available in our state, complete with articles, photographs, advertisements, and directories of camps and other lodgings available for the adventurous traveler.

This annual publication serves as an introduction to persons unacquainted with the vast Aroostook gameland and vacation country and for the hundreds who make yearly visits to this playground of the nation it is a reminder of happy clays in an expanse which nature has endowed with signal munificence....

12/28/2021

I haven't been the best at posting -- it has been 2 1/2 years.

I hope to rectify this by posting more regularly.

Starting today.

Enjoy this collection of photographs from Dow Field, Bangor, Maine, from (presumably 1944) featuring photos at Dow Field of various construction projects, several airplane nose art pictures (several of the "Hag of Hardwyke"), aerial photographs of planes on the ground at Dow Field, several parties on the base and drills at the base (including office work being performed while wearing gas masks), scenes of coastal Maine, and a snow storm on the base in December 1944. All photographs presumed to be from 1944.

This two-volume scrapbook set of over 1400 photographs compiled by First Lieutenant Annis G. Thompson, Historical Officer at Dow Field is presented in seven parts. Each part has about 200 photographs each. Each group of 200 photographs are more or less related to each other. These photographs should...

06/06/2019

Today, June 6, 2019 is the 75th anniversary of D-Day. We have digitized over 200 regimental histories or other books celebrating the service of the soldiers of World War II. View them at:

During the past 10 years, the Red Cross has expended well over half a billion dollars in service to the armed forces and to veterans -- dollars that were voluntarily contributed for that purpose by the people of this country. But even more significant are the millions of hours of volunteer effort th...

09/26/2017

Recent uploads include Bangor High School yearbooks from 1968 to 1971 (http://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/bhs_yearbooks/) and John Bapst High School yearbooks from 1965 to 1969 (http://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/jbhs_yearbooks/).

The 1970's have been described by many as the "decade of change." We are told that we can expect these changes to make themselves known in every facet of our lives. In order to continue to achieve its objectives of an educated populace, education in our schools must also change. Our educational syst...

03/28/2017

It's almost baseball season, again. Here, the 1914 Bangor High School poses in the sun -- presumably not during Winter, and maybe not even during Spring.

09/16/2016

Several recent additions relating to Bangor to checkout, particularly this one, which is a treasure trove of Bangor historical photographs and business advertisments:

http://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/190/

The most recent additions are here:

http://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/recent_additions.html

It is with combined pleasure and pride that we present to the Journal readers this month the story of Bangor, the Queen City of the East; a city coming out of her ashes more queenly than ever before. We say with pleasure and pride because it is a real pleasure to be able to speak well of friends, an...

06/26/2015

Bangor Public Library Digital Commons at http://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ launched in late 2013. Since that time, librarians and volunteers have been scanning and uploading photographs, maps, documents, and books of interest to the community of Bangor, surrounding towns, the state of Maine, and the world at large. The process can sometimes be slow going, but it has been a rewarding project and one we will devote more and more time and effort toward expanding and improving. We offer this page as a means of getting feedback from those who use our digital commons page, offering a means of asking us questions about items we have shared, or making suggestions about items you would like to see us add to our online collection.

City Directory Map of Bangor and Brewer, 1892. Published by Portland Directory Company, Portland, Maine. Made 1892 by Baldwin and Coombs, Civil Engineers, revised by David J. Nason, Civil engineer, Bangor, Me.