Maine Gallery

Rumford Falls, Maine, USA - A Business Block

Rumford Falls, Maine, USA - A Business Block, housing The Everett K. Day Company and G. A. Peabody Company. This card was produced in Austria, which may explain the rather unusual text and the VERY unusual depiction of the Star and Stripes!! Date: 1908

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

1900s, 1908, America, American, Block, Business, Commercial, Company, Day, Everett, Falls, Flag, Flagpole, Maine, Peabody, Rumford, States, United, Unusual, Usa, Variation

Anne-Louise-Benedicte de Bourbon, Duchess

Anne-Louise-Benedicte de Bourbon, Duchess of Maine, 1676-1753. She wears a tall lace Fontanges headdress, beauty spots, pearl choker, lace collar, mantua trimmed with fur, and petticoat with band of fur. She holds a fur muff with bow. After a miniature on vellum in the editor's collection. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Georges Jacques Gatine after an illustration by Louis Marie Lante from Galerie Francaise de Femmes Celebres, Paris, 1827. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans

Geoffrey Plantagenet, the Father of King Henry II

Geoffrey Plantagenet (1113-1151), the Count of Anjou, Touraine and Maine by inheritance from 1129, and also Duke of Normandy by conquest from 1144. His marriage to the Empress Matilda, daughter and heiress of Henry I of England, produced a son, Henry Curtmantle, who succeeded to the English throne as King Henry II
circa 1140

© Mary Evans Picture Library/Tom Gillmor