Maine Memory Network

Portland street lights, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Street lights crafted by the Portland Company, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

9 Temple Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Portland Gas Light Company Use: Print Shop

5-7 Temple Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Portland Gas Light Company Use: Store & Office

The Samoset, Rockport, 1917

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1917 Location: Rockport Client: The Samoset Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Maine Streets: The Postcard View

Photographers from the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co. of Belfast traveled throughout the state, especially in small communities, taking images for postcards. Many of these images, taken in the first three decades of the twentieth century, capture Main Streets on the brink of modernity.

Maine Medical Center, Bramhall Campus

Maine Medical Center, founded as Maine General Hospital, has dominated Portland’s West End since its construction in 1871 on Bramhall Hill. As the medical field grew in both technological and social practice, the facility of the hospital also changed. This exhibit tracks the expansion and additions to that original building as the hospital adapted to its patients’ needs.

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"The residences of Summer Street reflect Hampden’s 19th century wealth, for Hampden was a place of increasing industrialization."

Historic Hallowell - A Walk On The Streets During The Ice Storm

"… to night Children play board games by candle light Although the ice storm caused bad weather It brought families and neighbors closer together The…"

Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis

The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.

John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne

Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.