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Lewiston, Maine, USA

Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, USA

Lewiston derived its name from its founders, the Lewis families.
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A grant comprising the area of Lewiston was given to Moses Little and Jonathan Bagley, members of the Pejepscot Proprieters, on January 28, 1768 on the condition that fifty families lived in the area before June 1, 1774. Bagley and Little named the new town Lewistown.
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  • 1785-88 - Many veterans of the Revolution took up lots in "Lewistin."

    Town Register of Wayne, Wales, Monmouth, Leeds & Green, Maine, H.E. Mitchell Co, Brunswick,ME 1905

  • 1839 - Lewiston
    Lewiston, Maine
    Lincoln county. Lewiston lies on the E. side of Androscoggin river, at the falls. The waters of that river descend 47 feet, in the di...Read MORE...


  • News 1851 - Damage at Lewiston Falls
    The Portland Advertiser learns that a portion of the Lewiston dam was carried away by the freshet on Monday afternoon. The extent of the injury has no...Read MORE...


  • 1854 - Lewiston
    Lewiston, a flourishing post-village of Lincoln county, Maine, is situated on the left bank of the Androscoggin river, and on the Androscoggin and Ken...Read MORE...


  • News 1869 - TELEGRAMS. TERRIFIC HURRICANE AT EASTPORT, ME. Great Destruction of Property and Life. THE STORM IN MAINE.
    ...LEWISTON, Me., Oct.9.---The Evening Journal has a report of a great freshet on Swift River, in Oxford County, showing a rise of thirty-six feet in ...Read MORE...


  • News 1871 - Snapped Like Threads
    The Bangor (Me.) Whig reports that, owing to the intense cold, the wires of the Western Union Telegraph line, between that city and Lewiston, were rec...Read MORE...


  • News 1886 - History of a Pill Box - Found in the Drawer of a Lewiston Sewing Machine
    “Hello, what's this!” exclaimed a Lewiston sewing-machine agent, as he picked a pill-box out of the drawer of a sewing-machine, Thursday morning, and ...Read MORE...


  • 1886 - Lewiston
    Lewiston is practically the centre of Androscoggin County, and is nearly so geographically. It is situated upon the Androscoggin River, which separate...Read MORE...


  • Lewiston, Maine, USA
    Lewiston, Me. M.C.R.R. Station
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  • Lewiston, Maine, USA
    Lewiston, Me. Entrance Maine State Fair Grounds.
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  • Lewiston, Maine, USA
    Androscoggin One Price Clothing Co.
    Blue Store
    88 Lisbon St.
    Lewiston, Me.
    Advertisement
  • News 1891 - Don't Look
    A Lewiston, Maine policeman has had two hotel keepers arrested on a charge of offering him $200 a month not to see anything. The logical inference fro...Read MORE...


  • News 1892 - Justice?
    James Reiker, who hasn't got a red, has been in jail nearly four years in Lewiston, Maine, for a debt of $117.15, which he couldn't pay. But he has th...Read MORE...


  • 1895 - Lewiston
    Lewiston, the most populous city of Androscoggin co., Me., is situated on the E. (left) bank of the Androscoggin River, opposite Auburn, 35 miles N. o...Read MORE...


  • News 1896 - Bicycles and Business. Hard Times Attributed in Part to the Wheeling Craze.
    Now the bicycle is accused of responsibility for a lot of hard times in various lines of business. The theatrical man stands in front of his showhouse...Read MORE...


  • News 1900 - STILL A MYSTERY. Jessie Cobb's Murderer and His Motive Are Not Yet Revealed. LEWISTON POLICE ON THE ALERT. Several of Dead Girls Friends In Sabbattus Interviewed. WHERE IS FRED BROOKS?
    The veil which covers the crime connected with the Jessie Cobb case, has not yet been raised. There is no longer any doubt but that it was murder, but...Read MORE...


  • News 1900 - Wm. Reed's Tragic Death. A Horrible Fatality in a Lewiston Stable Friday Evening.
    A Surcharged Incandescent Electric Light Wire Pours Forth Its Fatal Voltage.

    The Poor Victim Found in a Pool of Water with the Sparks Playing About...Read MORE...


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  • Lewiston, Maine, USA
    City Building and De Witt House, Lewiston, Maine
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  • Lewiston, Maine, USA
    Androscoggin Mill and Canal
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  • Lewiston, Maine, USA
    Haymarket Square
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  • Lewiston, Maine, USA
    Tacoma Inn, near Lewiston, Me.
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  • News 1902 - THE DOMESTIC PROBLEM - Both Sides of the Question Presented by One Who Has Been Mistress and Maid - The Golden Rule If Applied Would Solve the Problem
    (Writer for The Sun.)

    “Wanted – A capable American house girl.” Such is the tenor of many “want” ads running in the newspapers at this time of year...Read MORE...


  • News 1902 - They Held Hands. Rustic Couple From the Country Create a Whole Lot of Amusement on Lewiston Streets.
    They were from the country – that – no one who saw the rustic couple would question for a minute. The fellow who was possibly six feet in height, wore...Read MORE...


  • Lewiston, Maine, USA
    1902 advertisement

    Furniture, Carpets, Bedding, Draperies, Stoves, Ranges, ETc.
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    Lewiston, Maine
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  • News 1903 - HILL TRAGEDY. The Son is Alive and Resting Comfortably - An Operation Will be Performed. THE OLD FATHER BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN INSANE.
    The Details of the Sad Affair Which Caused a Sensation Yesterday Morning.

    A most shocking double tragedy occurred in Barkerville yester-day mornin...Read MORE...


  • News 1903 - THE ODLIN SLOT MACHINES - Taken from Him by the Deputy Sheriffs Yesterday to Be Destroyed Today.
    The ex-city marshal Odlin's got a bunch of nickel-in-the-slot machines at his home on Newman street. These machines were seized by him while he was ci...Read MORE...


  • News 1903 - U-No Beer
    Sheriff Cummings has ordered the U-No beer joints with lunch rooms combined to sell nothing between the hours of twelve Saturday night and twelve Sund...Read MORE...


  • News 1903 - WONDERFUL ELECTRICITY. City Hall Has Been Thoroughly Wired and Everything is as Brilliant as Daylight.
    The work of wiring City Hall was completed last evening and the lights were turned on for the first time. The large chandelier, in the center of the h...Read MORE...


  • News 1904 - Passenger Train Wrecked
    Lewiston, Maine, Sept. 27. - Three are dead, nine others seriously injured and some twenty more persons cut and bruised as the result of the wrecking ...Read MORE...


  • News 1905 - A Lewiston man is breaking his frisky young colt by a novel method.
    He mounts his bicycle and leads his colt up and down the street as fast or as slow as he desires.
    Lewiston Daily Sun
    Lewiston, Maine
    May 21, 1905

  • Lewiston, Maine, USA
    Canal Hill and Bates Mills

    The Bates Mill is a textile factory company founded in 1850 and located at 35 Canal Street in Lewiston, Maine. The mill served as Maine's largest employer through the 1860s, and early profits from the mill provided much ... Read MORE...

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  • Lewiston, Maine, USA
    Hospital Square
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  • Lewiston, Maine, USA
    Lewiston Me., Looking Down Lisbon Street
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  • Lewiston, Maine, USA
    View from Davids Mt. showing Bates College Buildings, Lewiston, 1906
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  • Lewiston, Maine, USA
    City Hall
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  • Lewiston, Maine, USA
    Post Office, 1907
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  • Lewiston, Maine, USA
    Sisters Hospital
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  • Lewiston, Maine, USA
    De Witt Hotel
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  • News 1909 - Prisoner Escaped.
    During the breakfast hour at the Lewiston police station, Monday, J. J. McKenney, jr., told Officer Tuttle that he wanted to telephone friends to get ...Read MORE...


  • Lewiston, Maine, USA
    New Elk's Home, 1909
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  • Lewiston, Maine, USA
    Public Library, 1909
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  • Lewiston, Maine, USA
    The Great Department Store
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  • Lewiston, Maine, USA
    St. Mary's French Hospital
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  • Lewiston, Maine, USA
    Healy Asylum
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  • Lewiston, Maine, USA
    Jordan High School
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  • Lewiston, Maine, USA
    Lisbon Street, from Main
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  • Lewiston, Maine, USA
    Lisbon Street, looking up
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  • Lewiston, Maine, USA
    Park St. and M.E. Church
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  • Lewiston, Maine, USA
    New Shrine Building
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  • News 1911 - May 22 - The temperature at Lewiston ME soared to 101 degrees. It was the hottest temperature ever recorded in New England during the month of May.

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  • News 1911 - Senator Frye Dies in Maine - Former President Pro Tem. of National Body Passes Away in Old Home
    Lewiston, Maine, Aug. 9 - United States Senator William Pierce Frye died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Helen White, here yesterday. Mrs. White and...Read MORE...


  • Lewiston, Maine, USA
    Wallace School, 1911
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  • 1916
    Lewiston, a city of Androscoggin co., Me., is situated on the E. (left) bank of the Androscoggin River, opposite Auburn, 35 miles N. of Portland, and ...Read MORE...


  • Lewiston, Maine, USA
    Bates College
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  • Lewiston, Maine, USA
    Central Maine Power Company
    Gulf Island Dam, Androscoggin River
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  • Lewiston, Maine, USA
    Lisbon Street Looking South
    Postcard
  • 1936 - Lewiston-New Auburn Bridge Breaks in Two
    136 DEAD, 200,000 HOMELESS AND $300,000,000 DAMAGE IN FLOOD
    Estimate Eight Thousand Homeless in Maine
    Lewiston-New Auburn Bridge Breaks in Two
    The ...Read MORE...




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Lewiston, Me. M.C.R.R. Station

Lewiston, Maine, USA

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Lewiston, Me. Entrance Maine State Fair Grounds.

Lewiston, Maine, USA

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Androscoggin One Price Clothing Co.
Blue Store
88 Lisbon St.
Lewiston, Me.

Lewiston, Maine, USA

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Lewiston, Maine, USA

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City Building and De Witt House, Lewiston, Maine

Lewiston, Maine, USA

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Tacoma Inn, near Lewiston, Me.

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Androscoggin Mill and Canal

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Haymarket Square
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1900 murder of Jessie Cobb in Lewiston, ME
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1902 advertisement

Furniture, Carpets, Bedding, Draperies, Stoves, Ranges, ETc.
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Lewiston, Maine

Lewiston, Maine, USA

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Canal Hill and Bates Mills

The Bates Mill is a textile factory company founded in 1850 and located at 35 Canal Street in Lewiston, Maine. The mill served as Maine's largest employer through the 1860s, and early profits from the mill provided much ... Read MORE...

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Lewiston, Maine, USA

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Hospital Square

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Lewiston Me., Looking Down Lisbon Street

Lewiston, Maine, USA

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View from Davids Mt. showing Bates College Buildings, Lewiston, 1906
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City Hall

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Post Office, 1907

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Sisters Hospital

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De Witt Hotel

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New Elk's Home, 1909

Lewiston, Maine, USA

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Public Library, 1909

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The Great Department Store

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St. Mary's French Hospital

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Healy Asylum

Lewiston, Maine, USA

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Jordan High School

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Lisbon Street, from Main

Lewiston, Maine, USA

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Lisbon Street, looking up

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Park St. and M.E. Church

Lewiston, Maine, USA

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New Shrine Building

Lewiston, Maine, USA

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Wallace School, 1911

Lewiston, Maine, USA

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Bates College
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Central Maine Power Company
Gulf Island Dam, Androscoggin River

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Lisbon Street Looking South

History, News and Stories of Lewiston, Maine, USA

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  • 1785-88 - Many veterans of the Revolution took up lots in "Lewistin."

    Town Register of Wayne, Wales, Monmouth, Leeds & Green, Maine, H.E. Mitchell Co, Brunswick,ME 1905
  • History of Lewiston, Maine
  • 1839 - Lewiston
    Lewiston, Maine
    Lincoln county. Lewiston lies on the E. side of Androscoggin river, at the falls. The waters of that river descend 47 feet, in the... Read MORE...

  • News  1851 - Damage at Lewiston Falls
    The Portland Advertiser learns that a portion of the Lewiston dam was carried away by the freshet on Monday afternoon. The extent of the injury has... Read MORE...

  • 1854 - Lewiston
    Lewiston, a flourishing post-village of Lincoln county, Maine, is situated on the left bank of the Androscoggin river, and on the Androscoggin and... Read MORE...

  • News  1869 - TELEGRAMS. TERRIFIC HURRICANE AT EASTPORT, ME. Great Destruction of Property and Life. THE STORM IN MAINE.
    ...LEWISTON, Me., Oct.9.---The Evening Journal has a report of a great freshet on Swift River, in Oxford County, showing a rise of thirty-six feet in ... Read MORE...

  • News  1871 - Snapped Like Threads
    The Bangor (Me.) Whig reports that, owing to the intense cold, the wires of the Western Union Telegraph line, between that city and Lewiston, were... Read MORE...

  • 1886 - Lewiston
    Lewiston is practically the centre of Androscoggin County, and is nearly so geographically. It is situated upon the Androscoggin River, which... Read MORE...

  • News  1886 - History of a Pill Box - Found in the Drawer of a Lewiston Sewing Machine
    “Hello, what's this!” exclaimed a Lewiston sewing-machine agent, as he picked a pill-box out of the drawer of a sewing-machine, Thursday morning, and ... Read MORE...

  • News  1891 - Don't Look
    A Lewiston, Maine policeman has had two hotel keepers arrested on a charge of offering him $200 a month not to see anything. The logical inference... Read MORE...

  • News  1892 - Justice?
    James Reiker, who hasn't got a red, has been in jail nearly four years in Lewiston, Maine, for a debt of $117.15, which he couldn't pay. But he has... Read MORE...

  • 1895 - Lewiston
    Lewiston, the most populous city of Androscoggin co., Me., is situated on the E. (left) bank of the Androscoggin River, opposite Auburn, 35 miles N.... Read MORE...

  • News  1896 - Bicycles and Business. Hard Times Attributed in Part to the Wheeling Craze.
    Now the bicycle is accused of responsibility for a lot of hard times in various lines of business. The theatrical man stands in front of his... Read MORE...

  • News  1900 - Wm. Reed's Tragic Death. A Horrible Fatality in a Lewiston Stable Friday Evening.
    A Surcharged Incandescent Electric Light Wire Pours Forth Its Fatal Voltage.

    The Poor Victim Found in a Pool of Water with the Sparks Playing... Read MORE...

  • News  1900 - STILL A MYSTERY. Jessie Cobb's Murderer and His Motive Are Not Yet Revealed. LEWISTON POLICE ON THE ALERT. Several of Dead Girls Friends In Sabbattus Interviewed. WHERE IS FRED BROOKS?
    The veil which covers the crime connected with the Jessie Cobb case, has not yet been raised. There is no longer any doubt but that it was murder,... Read MORE...


    Read more about Jessie COBB photo of ancestor
  • News  1902 - They Held Hands. Rustic Couple From the Country Create a Whole Lot of Amusement on Lewiston Streets.
    They were from the country – that – no one who saw the rustic couple would question for a minute. The fellow who was possibly six feet in height,... Read MORE...

  • News  1902 - THE DOMESTIC PROBLEM - Both Sides of the Question Presented by One Who Has Been Mistress and Maid - The Golden Rule If Applied Would Solve the Problem
    (Writer for The Sun.)

    “Wanted – A capable American house girl.” Such is the tenor of many “want” ads running in the newspapers at this time of... Read MORE...

  • News  1903 - THE ODLIN SLOT MACHINES - Taken from Him by the Deputy Sheriffs Yesterday to Be Destroyed Today.
    The ex-city marshal Odlin's got a bunch of nickel-in-the-slot machines at his home on Newman street. These machines were seized by him while he was... Read MORE...


    Read more about Frederick Leighton ODLIN
  • News  1903 - U-No Beer
    Sheriff Cummings has ordered the U-No beer joints with lunch rooms combined to sell nothing between the hours of twelve Saturday night and twelve... Read MORE...

  • News  1903 - WONDERFUL ELECTRICITY. City Hall Has Been Thoroughly Wired and Everything is as Brilliant as Daylight.
    The work of wiring City Hall was completed last evening and the lights were turned on for the first time. The large chandelier, in the center of the... Read MORE...

  • News  1903 - HILL TRAGEDY. The Son is Alive and Resting Comfortably - An Operation Will be Performed. THE OLD FATHER BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN INSANE.
    The Details of the Sad Affair Which Caused a Sensation Yesterday Morning.

    A most shocking double tragedy occurred in Barkerville yester-day... Read MORE...

  • News  1904 - Passenger Train Wrecked
    Lewiston, Maine, Sept. 27. - Three are dead, nine others seriously injured and some twenty more persons cut and bruised as the result of the wrecking ... Read MORE...

  • News  1905 - A Lewiston man is breaking his frisky young colt by a novel method.
    He mounts his bicycle and leads his colt up and down the street as fast or as slow as he desires. Lewiston Daily Sun
    Lewiston, Maine
    May 21, 1905
  • News  1909 - Prisoner Escaped.
    During the breakfast hour at the Lewiston police station, Monday, J. J. McKenney, jr., told Officer Tuttle that he wanted to telephone friends to get ... Read MORE...


    Read more about James J MCKENNA
  • News  1911 - May 22 - The temperature at Lewiston ME soared to 101 degrees. It was the hottest temperature ever recorded in New England during the month of May.

    WeatherForYou.com
  • News  1911 - Senator Frye Dies in Maine - Former President Pro Tem. of National Body Passes Away in Old Home
    Lewiston, Maine, Aug. 9 - United States Senator William Pierce Frye died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Helen White, here yesterday. Mrs. White... Read MORE...

  • 1916
    Lewiston, a city of Androscoggin co., Me., is situated on the E. (left) bank of the Androscoggin River, opposite Auburn, 35 miles N. of Portland, and ... Read MORE...

  • 1936 - Lewiston-New Auburn Bridge Breaks in Two
    136 DEAD, 200,000 HOMELESS AND $300,000,000 DAMAGE IN FLOOD
    Estimate Eight Thousand Homeless in Maine
    Lewiston-New Auburn Bridge Breaks in Two
    The ... Read MORE...

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