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Resources

War Effort

"Bangor High School students buy $2,748.65 in war stamps." Bangor Daily News Dec. 9, 1943, Print.

Gilman, Robert;, and John Heide. Home Front America: Popular Culture of the World War II Era. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1995. Print.

Shaw, Dick. "Bangor Standpipe, city's distinguished landmark was built to last." Bangor Daily News June 20, 1974, Print.

Whitman, Sylvia. V Is for Victory: The American Home Front During World War II (People's History). Library Binding ed. Minneapolis: Lerner Publishing Group, 1993. Print.

Football

Geagan, Bill. "Rams Romp to Third Victory: Bangor Defeats Bapst 39-0 in Annual Gridiron Battle." Bangor Daily News 6 October 1941: 12. Print.

Goodwin, Sue. "American Cultural History 1940-1940." Lonestar College - Kingwood Library. Lone Star College, July 2009. Web. 14 March 2010.

"Lewiston Wins from Rams, 13-0." Bangor Daily News 2 November 1941, Print.

Then/Now

Astbury, Carroll. "Thanks for the Memories; Potential Buyers of Bangor's Historic Pilots Grill contemplate opening a Lounge." Bangor Daily News 8 Nov. 2003, sec. B: 1. Proquest. Web. 4 Feb. 2010.

Bangor Directories - 1940, 1941, 1945, 1947, 1949. Springfield, MA: H.A. Manning Company. Print.

"Bangor High School students buy $2,748.65 in war stamps." Bangor Daily News Dec. 9, 1943, Print.

"City Manager Wallace designs school grounds." Bangor Daily News Sept. 19, 1940, Print.

"Sears Roebuck plans to locate store in Bangor." Bangor Daily News June 28, 1938, Print.

Fashion

Baker, Patricia. Fashions of a Decade: The 1940s (Fashions of a Decade). New York: Facts on File, 1992. Print.

Olian, Joanne (Ed). Everyday Fashions of the Forties. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1992. Print.

Entire Project

Shaw, Richard R.. Bangor Volume II: The Twentieth Century (ME) (Images of America). Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1997. Print.

The Value of a Dollar: Prices and Incomes in the United States, 1860-1999. 2 ed. Lakeville: Grey House Publishing, 1999. Print.

Whitman, Sylvia. V Is for Victory: The American Home Front During World War II (People's History). Library Binding ed. Minneapolis: Lerner Publishing Group, 1993. Print.

Zelz, Abigail Ewing and Marilyn Zoidis. Woodsmen and Whigs: Historic Images of Bangor, Maine. Virginia Beach, VA: The Donning Company, 1991. Print.


Exhibits:

Bangor Then and Now
Bangor Then and Now
Football at Bangor High School
Football at Bangor High School
Fashion of the '40s
Fashion of the '40s
The Flying Torah at D.A.F.B.
The Flying Torah at D.A.F.B.
The War Effort
The War Effort
Resources
Resources




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