Maine Memory Network

Unloading rags, Eastern Manufacturing, Brewer, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Folklife Center, Univ. of Maine Date: circa 1920 Location: Brewer Media: Photographic print

Broadside seeking rags for paper making, Westbrook, 1795

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1795 Location: Westbrook Media: Ink on paper

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2 Silver Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Morris Sacknoff Use: Shooting Gallery

John Dunn, 19th Century Sportsman

John Warner Grigg Dunn was an accomplished amateur photographer, hunter, fisherman and lover of nature. On his trips to Ragged Lake and environs, he became an early innovator among amateur wildlife photographers. His photography left us with a unique record of the Moosehead Lake region in the late nineteenth century.

Hunting Season

Maine's ample woods historically provided numerous game animals and birds for hunters seeking food, fur, or hides. The promotion of hunting as tourism and concerns about conservation toward the end of the nineteenth century changed the nature of hunting in Maine.

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Buttons

"“Rags! Rags!” a voice yells. You hand out your rag bag, and the man collects the contents. The Rag Man, as many called him, would come every month to…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin store, Center Street, Bangor, 1862

"… man who came along July 20 1862 dressed in dirty ragged clothes sitting on the high ways by the fences and sketching churches and various…"

A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down