Maine Memory Network

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"Business owners also advertised by placing large signs outside their shops; these symbols made people instantly recognize the type of retail store."

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin Sr. home, Ellsworth, 1823

"… details in the drawing, including Card's Cove, Cards Brook, Squaw Point, Cards Mill, Austin's Cove, the Union River, and his father's tailor shop."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"… today!” “If people wanted ice they would put this card in the window showing how much ice they wanted; a ten cent block or a twenty cent block."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro to pages 91-132

"DeGarmo Brookes, comments on card playing, provides a program of an 1874 dance evening, Oliver Lunt's Dancing Academy, dances Martin sponsored, and…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond ~ A Family Affair

"… today! If people wanted ice they would put this card in the window showing how much ice they wanted; a ten cent block or a twenty cent block."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"… beaches, family bon fire parties, and indoor card and board games, especially Bridge, Canasta and jig saw puzzles. St."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Our Resources

"… Records Genealogy Records Photographs Post Cards Reference Books Permanent and changing exhibits Islesboro Central School PO Box 118 159 Alumni…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ice Storm Poem

"… glaze from behind dark windows; playing cards by candlelight with battery-run radios humming to fill silence."

Lincoln, Maine - Nathaniel Bodwell

"Carding mills have to brush or card the wool before it can be spun into yarn for knitting or weaving into cloth."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell House

"Worster House card, Hallowell, ca. 1930Maine Historical Society Since 1832, this hotel served the public."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 0-73

"Black Joseph Card Calvin Bakeman Eben Merrill Rebecca Raynes Charles Merrill Elm House, Bangor Thomas Finson Skinner Farm, Brewer Henry K."

Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones

"… the two lines the operator put in a type of time card, and the operators would get paid from two to ten dollars per week."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - West New Portland Village

"… Village in 1860: New Portland Directory Business Card Dated 1860 Samuel Vose Physician & Surgeon Gould & Spooner Dry Goods & Groceries John P."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"If people wanted ice, they would put a card in the window showing how much ice they wanted. Ice was either a ten cents block or a twenty cents block."

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Patten Free Library

"Other people pay $40 for a library card each year. This information about the Patten Free Library in Bath highlights the past and present…"

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Memorial Library

"… cost money to rent, you had to have a library card. In the 1920s-1980s there were multiple librarians; some were Mary Buzzell, Sadie Adams, Evelyn…"

Penobscot Marine Museum

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Lincoln, Maine - Post Office

"… way to Bangor or Howland to get my letters and cards from them. That is one reason why I think it is very important that we have the postal office."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"… From an Old North New Portland Directory Business Card Dated 1860 Abijah Coleman Postmaster W.H. Marshall Att'y at Law B. Adams “ “ “ S.A."

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"This was to manufacture all the postal cards used by the United States Post Office. The Oxford was producing these cards at a rate of 3,000,000 per…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"There was a carding mill operated by Mr. Purvis south of the bridge, near Mr. Mountford's mill, but it crumbled to decay. Mr."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… and shipping industries, plus it housed a carding mill, tannery, stave mill, shingle mill, corn and barley gristmills."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"… built in 1803, salt factories, shoe factories, carding mills, blacksmith shops, and ice houses. John Elliott built a mill on Lemon Stream at the…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"… cheese and starch making facilities, and wool carding products. Rumford (first known as New Pennacook Township) was visited by the Anasagunticook…"