Maine Memory Network

Artificial leg, Bangor, 1865

Contributed by: Bangor Historical Society Date: circa 1865 Location: Presque Isle; Spotsylvania; Bangor Media: Wood, leather

Bancroft-Foote Cottage and artificial pond, Fairfield, ca. 1935

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: circa 1935 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print

Baptist Church, Sanford, 1888

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1888 Location: Sanford Client: Sanford Baptist Church Architect: Stevens & Cobb Architects

Good Will-Hinckley: Building a Landscape

The landscape at the Good Will-Hinckley campus in Fairfield was designed to help educate and influence the orphans and other needy children at the school and home.

Ice: A Maine Commodity

Maine's frozen rivers and lakes provided an economic opportunity. The state shipped thousands of tons of ice to ports along the East Coast and to the West Indies that workers had cut and packed in sawdust for shipment or later use.

Historic Clothing Collection - 1920-1930 - Page 1 of 3

"… onto looms and be made into fabrics marketed as artificial silk. The name "rayon" was adopted in the mid-1920s."

Early Maine Photography - MHS Early Maine Photography Collections

"… collections, known as "complied collections" or "artificial collections," which typically separated images by medium or size, and disrupted their…"