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Public Libraries of Maine
Cities T-Z

Westbrook

Hugh C. Leighton card, mailed in 1906.

 

Built in 1894. A somewhat defective 1984-9 addition had to be closed for 5 months in 2007-8 for repairs.

 

Still in use.

Westbrook, ME public library
Westbrook, ME Memorial Library

Normally Leighton cards are attractive, but look at this unattributed tinted card! You can see that the frieze has a quirk: the O looks more like °.

Winterport

Town library service began in 1895, but the rocks to build this Victor Hodgin design weren't gathered until 1921. The library was finished in 1922, and is still in use. 

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E.D. West Co. postcard, never mailed.

Wiscasset
Wiscasset, ME public library

An 1805 building. It began its use as a library in 1929.

Photo postcard with an RPO postmark from the Bangs & Boston Railroad. It was mailed in 1949.

Yarmouth (Merrill Memorial Library)
Merrill Memorial Library, Yarmouth, ME

(L) Published by F.E. Merrill (a relative of the donor, perhaps?) of Freeport. 
(R) Photo postcard, never mailed.

Merrill Memorial Library, Yarmouth, ME

According to its web page, the Library was built in 1905. Interestingly, its architect, A.W. Longfellow, was a nephew of the famous poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Its style is said to match that of his other projects at Harvard, and Radcliffe College. It received an addition in 1988.

York Village

I'm uncertain if this is York, or York Village. Or perhaps it's York Harbor, whose 1952 postmark is clearly struck on the reverse.

 

Photo postcard was made by A.A. Peterson of Greenland, NH. Apparently, he (or she?) was quite prolific.

York Village, ME library

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