Maine Memory Network

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - White's Graded School Series, Complete Arithmetic book, 1870

""L. W. Titcomb, Farmington, Me." penciled on the last page. Book published by Wilson, Hinkle and Company, Cincinnati, 1870 View additional…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 3 of 3

"Two suits in the MHS collection may be late 1940s possibly early 1950s interpretations of the new "pencil" skirt suit."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 1 of 6

"… Clover Cottage home, drawing small and detailed pencil sketches, or in the constant typewritten discourse about Asticou that he created, Charles…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 3 of 4

"These had many benefits that the slates did not have. For example, slate pencils were very wide, which made it hard to write neatly and quickly."

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"The Maine Historical Society owns Wilkinson’s pencil and wash drawing of Mansion House alterations made during this period. In 1899 Harry C."

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin store, Center Street, Bangor, 1862

"… remarkably correct and his only instrument was a pencil and for the fun of it I gave him 10 cents a piece to draw my house & store and I have both…"

Life on a Tidal River - Fashion of the '40s

"… to create an illusion of hose, and some drew thin pencil lines on the backs of their calves to create an illusion of the hose seam."

Early Maine Photography - Human Interest

"Baker’s poignant inscription in pencil reads: "May 11, 1855 -Tomorrow I am to send this picture to my friends in Palmyra."

Early Maine Photography - Art

"… the portrait miniature was the profile drawn in pencil or rendered in watercolor. Such profiles enjoyed widespread popularity in the decades before…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… Mount Desert Island’s landscapes through pencil sketches and paintings that were finished, shared and published back in their home cities."

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"Phebe's Hymnal Zoom in to read the faintly penciled banter.Surry Historical Society Phebe and Isaac married in Surry on February 6, 1864."

Presque Isle: The Star City - John R Braden

"Braden Memorabilia - a pencil and a tobacco label stamp. Presque Isle Historical Society The pencil says, “You will make no mistake if you…"