Maine Memory Network

Josiah Pierce on keeping school, Brunswick, 1845

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1845 Location: Brunswick Media: Ink on paper

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Parents of Edmund S. Muskie, Blaine House, ca. 1955

Contributed by: Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library Date: circa 1955 Location: Augusta Media: Photographic print

114-116 Clark Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Frank Burnham Use: Dwelling - Two family

W.T. Parent Drug Store, Madawaska, 1949

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1949 Location: Madawaska Client: W. T. Parent Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Brown Memorial Library, Clinton, 1903

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1899–1903 Location: Clinton; Clinton Client: Town of Clinton Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Eternal Images: Photographing Childhood

From the earliest days of photography doting parents from across Maine sought to capture images of their young children. The studio photographs often reflect the families' images of themselves and their status or desired status.

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The House, 1786-1960

"… of home." – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to his parents, 1826 When Peleg and Elizabeth Bartlett Wadsworth built their brick home on Back Street in…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 1 of 3

"They soon found out they had a lot to get used to, including the language. The first thing my parents noticed was the climate; snow, snow, snow, and…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 3 of 3

"My parents used an outhouse in Vietnam. When my mother and father were young, their houses were made of wood and had a thatched roof."

In 1970 I served in Vietnam, and sent my parents a package
by Peter P. Joyce Jr.

My Parents' war story

How Mon-Oncle France came to Les-États
by Michael Parent

How Mon-Oncle France came to the United States.