Maine Memory Network

A piscatorial playground in beautiful Maine, ca. 1935

Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1935 Media: Linen texture postcard

WAC Beauty Shop, Bangor, 1945

Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: 1945-04-18 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print

510-512 Congress Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Martha Abbott Use: Stores - Studio - Beauty Parlor

Wint residence, Swans Island, 1992

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1992 Location: Swans Island Client: Dennis M. Wint Architect: Landscape Design Associates

House for Lyman H. Nelson, Portland, 1897-1926

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1897–1926 Location: Portland; Portland Client: Lyman H. Nelson Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Student Exhibit: Historic Buildings on Madison Ave in Skowhegan

Take a tour and see some of the beautiful old buildings that used to be on Madison Avenue, Skowhegan? A few still remain, but most have been torn down.

Poland Spring: Summering in Fashion

During the Gilded Age at the end of the nineteenth century, Americans sought to leave increasing urban, industrialized lives for the health and relaxation of the country. The Poland Spring resort, which offered a beautiful setting, healing waters, and many amenities, was one popular destination.

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 1 of 6

"… (1903-1979) had an eye for the intrinsically beautiful natural landscape of Mount Desert Island."

Lincoln, Maine - View of Mattanawcook Lake from Clark Street, Lincoln, ca. 1890

"… Society Description This is a beautiful view of Mattanawcook Lake taken from Clark Street area in the late 1890s."

Black Is Beautiful
by Judi Jones

Gut-wrenching fear

One View
by Karen Jelenfy

My life as an artist in Maine.

Longfellow Studies: "The Slave's Dream"

Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12 Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
In December of 1842 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Poems on Slavery was published. "The Slave's Dream" is one of eight anti-slavery poems in the collection. A beautifully crafted and emotionally moving poem, it mesmerizes the reader with the last thoughts of an African King bound to slavery, as he lies dying in a field of rice. The 'landscape of his dreams' include the lordly Niger flowing, his green-eyed Queen, the Caffre huts and all of the sights and sounds of his homeland until at last 'Death illuminates his Land of Sleep.'