A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

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Entry from February 26, 2016
Maine: Pine Tree State (nickname)

Entry in progress—B.P.
 
OCLC WorldCat record
Forest and shore, or, Legends of the Pine-tree state
Author: Charles P Ilsley
Publisher: Boston : J.P. Jewett and Co., 1856
Edition/Format:   eBook : Document : Fiction : English
     
OCLC WorldCat record
[The eagle trees, in] The poets of Maine: a collection of specimen poems from over four hundred verse-makers of the Pine-Tree State: with biographical sketches: compiled by George Bancroft Griffith
Author: Sarah Orne Jewett, 1849-1909; Sarah Orne Jewett
Publisher: Portland: Elwell, Pickard & Co. 1888.
Edition/Format:   Computer file : English
 
OCLC WorldCat record
Northern grown seeds, plants, bulbs, etc. : grown in the rugged climate of the “Pine Tree State,” earliest and best
Author: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library; O.M. Richardson & Co.; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection.
Publisher: Canton, Me. :O.M. Richardson & Co.,1896.
Edition/Format:   Downloadable archival material : English
 
OCLC WorldCat record
Toonervilles of Maine, the pine tree state
Author: O R Cummings
Publisher: Newburyport, Mass. : O.R. Cummings, 1955.
Edition/Format:   Print book : English
 
OCLC WorldCat record
Maine, the pine tree state
Author: Bill Harris
Publisher: New York : Crescent Books : Distributed by Crown, ©1986.
Edition/Format:   Print book : English : 1986 ed
 
OCLC WorldCat record
There goes Maine! : a somewhat history, sort of, of the Pine Tree State
Author: John Gould
Publisher: New York : Norton, ©1990.
Edition/Format:   Print book : English : 1st ed

Posted by Barry Popik
Other ExpressionsOther States • Friday, February 26, 2016 • Permalink


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