Science Department, Football Team, High School, Room A, Commercial Department.

Second Baptist, First Methodist, First Congregational Church and Parsonage.

Showing Universalist and First Baptist Churches.

Corner of Hammond and Court Streets.

Bangor's first theatre.

Erected in 1897 for the Maine Music Festival. Seating capacity 3,000.

Morse-Oliver Block, Bass Block, Shoe Factory.

Corner stone laid Sept. 2, 1901; cost, $150,000.

View of the Post Office and Custom House from Hammond Street. Shows the Kenduskeag Stream and Norombega Hall in the background.

[View from the top of State Street Hill looking toward City Hall.]

Looking up Kenduskeag Stream.

Reproduction of a lithograph depicting Bangor as seen across the Penobscot River from Brewer.

The present eventful time is restoring their significance to some words and usages. The celebration of this day has been an empty pageant, and Fourth of July oratory but another name for political gasconade. But when this year it seemed likely that there would be no public celebration on account of the obvious propriety of avoiding the customary expense, every one of us felt a hungering of the heart for some patriotic observance of the day ...