List of Illustrations


Pittsfield Historical Society’s
History of Pittsfield

Pittsfield on the Sebasticook

by Sanger Mills Cook
originally published in 1966


List of Illustrations

18.a Home of Moses Martin
18.b Moses Martin Marker Donated by DAR
19 Record of First Town Meeting
34 Memorials – Early Settlers
40.1 Pittsfield Village – 1860
40.2 Pittsfield Township – 1860
40.3 Pittsfield Village – 1880
40.4 Pittsfield Township – 1880
56.1a Railroad Spur Track to Gravel Pits: 1854
56.1b Penobscot & Kennebec Railroad: 1854
56.1c Universalist Church – Circa 1875
56.2a MCI Founders
56.2b MCI – Circa 1870
56.3a MCI bell donated by Harry Lancey 1877
56.3b MCI Principals
56.3c MCI, Student Body – Circa 1870
56.4a Grammar School – Site of First Baptist Church
56.4b Lancey House, – Circa 1880
56.4c MCI Campus – Circa 1880
64.1a-c Great Fire 1881
64.2 Advertiser, First – Page 1
64.3 Advertiser, First – Page 2
64.4 Advertiser, First – Page 3
64.5 Advertiser, First – Page 4
64.6a C. B. Haskell, Editor
64.6b Park Street – Mid 80’s
64.7a Mill Pond: Looking South
64.7b Church, Looking North from
64.7c Sebasticook Old bridge 1875-1885
64.8a Main St., West Side – Looking South
64.8b Main St., West Side – Looking North
64.8c Main St., East Side
64.8d Middle St.
64.8e Carriage Shop 1875-1885 (See Picture 120.9)
80.1a McMaster’s residence
80.1b Looking East from MCI
80.1c Looking North from MCI
80.1d Looking Northwest from MCI: Pleasant St – Hartland Avenue
80.2a South Main Street: Looking North
80.2b Park St.
80.2c Dr. J. C. Manson’s Residence
80.2d Mill Pond: Looking North (1880-1900
80.3a Union Hall: 1885
80.3b Main St., East Side: 1876
80.3c Davis Store – 1885: West Side Main St (Later – Drug Store)
80.4a Dexter-Sampson-Libby Lumber Mill – Looking North – No Standpipe
80.4b Pittsfield Electric Co.
80.4c Pioneer Mill, 1880-1900
80.5a Hunnewell Bridge
80.5b Conant Pant Factory – Railroad St. (Now Library St)
80.5c Hitching Post (Can be seen near site of Conant Factory)
80.6a MCI Baseball Team 1887 (Defeated all Maine Colleges)
80.6b Cook’s Orchestra – 1890
80.7 Hathorn Homestead (Stock Farm)
80.8a Dedication of Library – 1904
80.8b Dedication of Library program
80.8c Capt. Parson’s Steamer Docked at Waverly – 1903
88.1 The Pittsfield Advertiser, April 11, 1895 – Page 1
88.2 The Pittsfield Advertiser, April 11, 1895 – Page 2
88.3 The Pittsfield Advertiser, April 11, 1895 – Page 3
88.4 The Pittsfield Advertiser, April 11, 1895 – Page 4
88.5 The Pittsfield Advertiser, Nov. 1, 1906: Lancey House Fire – Page 1
88.6a Lancey House Before the Fire
88.6b Men Who Fought the Lancey House Fire
88.6c Lancey House in Ruins
88.7a Lancey House, Five Years After Fire
88.7b Libby’s Drug Store – 1907(In 1960, Humphrey’s Drug)
88.7c Pittsfield Poultry Farm – Frank W. Briggs, Owner 1907
88.8a Pittsfield Electric Co. – 1907
88.8b Bryant and Company – 1906
88.8c First Baptist Church – 1907
88.8d Pastor Olin Tracy
104.1a Church, Universalist – 1907
104.1b St. Agnes Church
104.1c Methodist Church – 1907 (Manson St.)
104.2a Pittsfield National Bank – 1907
104.2b Pittsfield National Bank Officers – 1907
104.2c Main St. – 1907
104.3a Main Central Railroad Station and Express Office – 1907
104.3b Hunter-McMaster Store – Site of Central Maine Oil Company
104.3c George H. Hunter and A. P. McMaster
104.3d George H. Hunter
104.3e A. P. McMaster
104.4a Tilton House – Park St. – 1907
104.4b Lancey Homestead – 1907
104.5a Dr. E. C. Bryant
104.5b Dr. E. C. Bryant Homestead – 1907
104.5c Home of William McGilvery – 1907
104.6a Oramel Murray, Postmaster – 1907
104.6b McMaster residence 1907 – Site of Manson House
104.6c Residence of Frank W. Briggs – 1907
104.7a Funeral Procession – 1910 – David “Mart” Parks
104.7b Main St. Fire – 1911
104.7c Main St. Fire – 1912
104.8a MCI – 1910
104.8b MCI Principals (1910)
104.8c MCI Boys’ Dormitory – 1910
120.1 Pittsfield Centennial Celebration Program
120.2a Militia – 1911
120.2b Parade – 1912
120.2c Patriotic Ceremonies – 1912
120.3a Ready for Centennial Parade
120.3b Post Office Moved to New Quarters – 1927 (Charles H. Bussell – Postmaster)
120.3c Fire Department – 1924
120.4a Haskell Memorial
120.4b Dobson Memorial
120.4c McMaster Memorial
120.5a First National Bank Directors – 1940
120.5b Col. Morrill’s First Flight
120.5c Millyard – Flood of 1936
120.6 George M. Parks 1865 – 1934
120.7a Union Hall 1930-35
120.7b Ray H. Badger
120.7c Inez Severance, Town Clerk Since 1931
120.8a George M. Parks Gymnasium
120.8b Royal Grover, Supt. Grounds and Buildings, MCI, During 20’s, 30’s, 40’s
120.9a Pioneer Mill – 1935
120.9b Pittsfield Motor Sales – 1935 (See picture of Carriage Shop, 64.8e)
120.10a Parks Memorial
120.10b Manson Memorial
120.11 Tuesday Club 1950
120.12a Kiwanis Entertains MCI Students
120.12b Dr. Webber, Kiwanis First President
120.12c Kiwanis Minstrels
120.13a Waverly Mill Converted to Shoes
120.13b Northeast Shoe Planning Expansion Program
120.13c Shoe Manufacturing Comes to Pittsfield
120.14a Peltoma Acres – 1947
120.14b Senator Smith Studies Plans
120.14c Peltoma Acres Development Today (1960)
120.15a Waverly Dam – Airport
120.15b Municipal Airport, Manson Park
120.16a J. R. Cianchette, and his Plane – 1955
120.16b Dow Air Base – 1952
120.16c J. R. Cianchette Company Trucks – 1952
136.1a Edwards: Signing Contracts – 1956
136.1b Edwards: completed – 1956
136.1c Edwards: Welcome – 1956
136.2a Main St.: January
136.2b Main St.: June
136.2c Main St.: July
136.3a MCI Principal Niblock
136.3b MCI Founders’ Hall
136.3c Airview of MCI Campus
136.4a MCI Trustees Meeting 1958: Headmaster Edward Stanley and Senator Margaret Chase Smith
136.4b MCI Powell Memorial Library 1959
136.5 Pittsfield Advertiser: Eisenhower Visit to Pittsfield,
136.6 Eisenhower Letter
136.7a Fire Department – 1955
136.7b Nixon Speaks – 1952
136.7c Pittsfield Band – William Griffin, Leader
136.8a Herbert Newhouse
136.8b Newhouse Poultry Farm, Main Poultry Building – 1958
136.8c Newhouse Poultry Farm, Fire 1961
152.1a Edwards Company
152.1b J. R. Cianchette and Sons, Inc.
152.1c Bud’s Super Market
152.1d Shorey Funeral Home
152.1e C. M. Almy and Sons, Inc.
152.2a Huff Machine Shop
152.2b Hubbard’s Garage
152.2c Wirthmore Store
152.2d Pittsfield Woolen Yarns
152.2e Pittsfield Motor Sales
152.3a South Main Street: Summer
152.3b South Main Street: Winter
152.4a Manson Park School
152.4b Vickery School – 1958
152.4c Lancey Street School – Lunch Program
152.4d North Lancey Street School – Converted to Lower Grades 1958
152.5a Looking South from Hartland Ave, where 95 Crosses
152.5b Former Presidents of Kiwanis, 25thAnniversary
152.6a Sebasticook Valley Hospital
152.6b Chandler Nursing Home
152.6c Hunnewell Bridge, New
152.7a Pinnacle Ski Slope and Ice Rink
152.7b St. Agnes Rectory – Recreation Center – Parking Area
152.7c Marie Bradford School
152.8a Ken, Buddy, and Chuck Cianchette
152.8b Cianchette Brothers, Inc. – Offices and Shops
166.1a Cianchette Brothers, Stables
166.1b Cianchette Brothers, One-Half Mile Track and Stables –
166.2a MCI West Campus
166.2b Harry W. Rowe – President MCI Trustees
166.3 MCI – Between Classes
166.4a Maine Fence Company, Don Bishop, Owner
166.4b Maine Fence Company
166.5a State Highway Garage – Spring Road
166.5b American Legion Home, former Methodist Church, Waverly Ave.
166.5c Fish and Game Club
166.6a C. M. Almy and Sons, Inc., Ryan Fendler, Mgr
166.6b Gerald Fitts
166.6c Dean John Shields, MCI Headmaster Edward Stanley
166.7a Norm Lyons, Western Auto Associate
166.7b Pittsfield Advertiser, Editor Mitchell – Yola Sanborn
166.7c LaForest Wright
166.7d Pittsfield Woolen Yarns: Neal and Clifford Wright
166.7e The Embers, David Mercier, Manager and Chef
166.7f The Embers
166.8a Humphrey’s Drug Store: Don Makes a Sale
166.8b Hersey Hardware: Hugh Hersey explains
166.8c Pittsfield Motor Sales: Harry
166.8d Bud’s Supermarket: Bud greets a customer
166.8e First National bank, Dick Austen, Cashier
166.9a Pittsfield Municipal Airport, Charles Andrews, Mgr.
166.9b New Furniture Exchange
166.9c State Liquor Store and Post Office
172 Post Office
166.10a George Newhouse, owner of Newhouse Farm – First Pres. of Jr. Chamber of Commerce
166.10b Wright’s Racing Stables: Luke, Grace, and Buddy Wright
166.10c Lehr-Hammond Insurance Agency: Willard Lehr and Burton Hammond
192 Pittsfield and Route 95 (map)

Original Version 18-Mar-2005. Created by Tom Brown. The book did not originally have a list of illustrations.

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