Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Cascade Hand Tub

"… strokes per minute, they pumped water through a leather hose. The Cascade Hand Tub was nothing like the fire engines used today."

Historic Hallowell - Uniforms and Expenses

"Officers would wear a thick black or brown, leather belt (depending on the color of the cow hide that was used.) Their shoes were often leather with…"

Historic Hallowell - Basic Fire Fighting Technology

"Everybody would carry the leather buckets to the Kennebec River, fill them with water, and lug them back up to the burning house to douse the fire."

Life on a Tidal River - Football in Bangor

"These helmets, however, were only made of leather which did not offer as much protection as today's standard helmets."

L.L. Bean Corporate Archives

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1960-1970 - Page 2 of 3

"… multi-colored patchwork mini skirt, made from leather but lined in synthetic fabric, and a lime green V neck sleeveless dress with a vest-like six…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 3 of 3

"… cars in the 1970s is that the windshields and leather seats would crack and break. This would happen in Aroostook County because of the…"

Historic Hallowell - Johnson Brothers and Their Shoe Factory

"… dozens of calf skins, three to four tons of split leather, and ten to twelve tons of sole leather. They had to buy some raw material too, which…"

Historic Hallowell - Protect and Serve - Hallowell Fire and Police

"… required each member to keep ready at least two leather buckets for possible use in a "bucket brigade", and canvas bags to provide for the removal…"

Historic Hallowell - The Tiger and the Lion

"… of fire fighting engine with a stitched together, leather hose. Fire Department, Hallowell, 1843Hubbard Free Library The machine was built to…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Additions and New Wing - 1824 to 1843

"The leather, carriages and corn stored within were destroyed, amounting to a loss of about $9,000. It was suspected a discharged convict caused the…"

Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 1 of 2

"… of her in an elegant dress and bonnet wearing leather gloves, very much looking the part of the daughter of Portland merchant Ezekial Day and the…"

Early Maine Photography - Occupational

"… river drivers in their work clothes and spiked leather boots. In one of these images, two loggers exhibit the tools of their trade: a peavey, an…"

Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay

"On cool summer evenings guests lounged in leather chairs around the large fireplace in the lobby as chauffeurs lined up in the circular driveway to…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… of every description: lumber, paper, flour, leather, shoes, toothpicks, bowling pins, clothespins, shingles, barrels, tool handles."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 2 of 4

"Soon after in the 1850's the leather strap and hickory switch were introduced to classrooms across the country."

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Education

"1920 This team had limited safety equipment. Leather helmets and little or no protection must have increased the injuriesFarmington Historical…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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