Maine Memory Network

HMS Monarch, Portland Harbor, 1870

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1870 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

"Lifecycle of the Monarch Butterfly," Weld, ca. 2014

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 2014 Location: Weld Media: Watercolor on paper

A Craze for Cycling

Success at riding a bike mirrored success in life. Bicycling could bring families together. Bicycling was good for one's health. Bicycling was fun. Bicycles could go fast. Such were some of the arguments made to induce many thousands of people around Maine and the nation to take up the new pastime at the end of the nineteenth century.

Umbazooksus & Beyond

Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.

Presque Isle: The Star City - Mono Aircraft Company, Presque Isle, 1935

"… Description A Mono Aircraft Company "Monarch," manufactured in 1929, was owned by H. H. Linn, president of the Linn Tractor Company…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 3 of 7

"… that their king had a right, as a Christian monarch, to claim and grant away land already within Native jurisdiction under the doctrine of vacuum…"