Maine Memory Network

Columbia Market, Portland, 1951

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1951 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Powder blue suit with caplet, ca. 1950

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1950 Media: wool, rayon, metal
This record contains 14 images.

Proposed addition to the High School building for the city of South Portland, 1935-1937

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1935–1937 Location: South Portland Client: CIty of South Portland Architect: Miller & Beal Inc. Architects
This record contains 4 images.

Bay of Naples Inn, Naples, 1905

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1905 Location: Naples Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Skiing Pleasant Mountain

By the second half of the 20th century, skiing began to enjoy unprecedented popularity. Pleasant Mountain in Bridgton (later Shawnee Peak) was Maine's foremost place to join the fun in the 1950s and 1960s.

The Establishment of the Troy Town Forest

Seavey Piper, a selectman, farmer, landowner, and leader of the Town of Troy in the 1920s through the early 1950s helped establish a town forest on abandoned farm land in Troy. The exhibit details his work over ten years.

Presque Isle: The Star City - Christmas decorations, Presque Isle, ca. 1950

"… The photograph was taken in December in the early 1950s with both the Presque Isle Police and Fire stations decorated."

Lincoln, Maine - Evelyn Jenkins, Lincoln Memorial Library, ca. 1954

"… entertaining a group of schoolchildren from Enfield in the 1950s. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

Aroostook Potato Harvest: Perspective of a Six Year Old
by Phyllis A. Blackstone

A child's memory of potato harvest in the 1950s

Hand carrying water in Marshfield
by Dorothy Gardner

Ways of getting water in rural Maine. From fetching water from a stream to having a well.