Maine Memory Network

Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 1 of 2

"He was imprisoned in Augusta, where New York police subsequently discovered that Kirby was the missing murderer of Lillian White of Brooklyn, NY."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and the Civil War

"was captured and imprisoned at Libby Prison.Bangor Historical Society Colonel George Varney, a resident of Bangor, Maine, was taken prisoner on July…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"After a number of failed speculations, Swan was imprisoned in Paris, France for twenty-two years for a debt he did not acknowledge."