Maine Memory Network

A guide driving a wagon drawn by two horses over a rough corduroy road, ca. 1900

Courtesy of John Howard, an individual partner Date: circa 1901 Media: Lantern slide

Walter J. Swett, Ashland, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Ashland Media: Photographic print

House for Mount Kineo and Guide's House for the Kineo Co., Kineo, 1900-1902

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1900–1902 Location: Kineo Client: Kineo Company Architect: Coombs and Gibbs Architects

Walch Publishing parking plan, Portland, 1991-1999

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1991–1999 Location: Portland Client: Walch Properties Architect: Allied Architects & Engineers

A Field Guide to Trolley Cars

Many different types of trolley cars -- for different weather, different uses, and different locations -- were in use in Maine between 1895-1940. The "field guide" explains what each type looked like and how it was used.

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.

Norcross Heritage Trust

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters

"Guiding Services for Sport Hunters Wabanaki guides with canoes, Bar Harbor, 1881Abbe Museum Many Wabanaki men at the Bar Harbor encampments…"

How Mom caught Dad
by Jane E. Woodman

How Ruth and Piney met in Wilton and started a life together

Baxter State Park and Burton W. Howe
by Jason Howe

Formation of Baxter State Park and the involvement of Burton W. Howe of Patten

Longfellow Studies: Integration of Longfellow's Poetry into American Studies

Grade Level: 9-12 Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
We explored Longfellow's ability to express universality of human emotions/experiences while also looking at the patterns he articulated in history that are applicable well beyond his era. We attempted to link a number of Longfellow's poems with different eras in U.S. History and accompanying literature, so that the poems complemented the various units. With each poem, we want to explore the question: What is American identity?

Portland History: "My Lost Youth" - Longfellow's Portland, Then and Now

Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12 Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow loved his boyhood home of Portland, Maine. Born on Fore Street, the family moved to his maternal grandparents' home on Congress Street when Henry was eight months old. While he would go on to Bowdoin College and travel extensively abroad, ultimately living most of his adult years in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he never forgot his beloved Portland. Years after his childhood, in 1855, he wrote "My Lost Youth" about his undiminished love for and memories of growing up in Portland. This exhibit, using the poem as its focus, will present the Portland of Longfellow's boyhood. In many cases the old photos will be followed by contemporary images of what that site looked like 2004. Following the exhibit of 68 slides are five suggested lessons that can be adapted for any grade level, 3–12.