Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"When the platform was frozen then you could cut the ice with saws, drag it out of the pond and up and onto the platform and shove it on to the wagon."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 7 of 13

"… the field with wagons that were built with a low platform, allowing the barrels to be more easily loaded and unloaded."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Partners

"… is the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research. This research is made possible by volunteers — more than a million…"

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

"When the platform was frozen then you could cut the ice with saws, drag it out of the pond and up and onto the platform and shove it on to the wagon."

Historic Hallowell - Sweat on the Kennebec ~ Hallowell Steam and Boom Company

"… Raftsmen often in red shirts, stood on little platforms at either end of the raft as they drifted with the tide, smoking their pipes or sculling…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Project Background and Partners

"… the Microsoft access database to an online MMN platform starting in December 2020. Work over the coming year (2022) includes digitizing at least…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 3 of 4

"… leaders across all political spectrums ran on platforms decrying, much like the “liberty men” of old, any possible settlement related to the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background

"… partnership with The Zooniverse, a crowd-based platform which provided an exciting opportunity to engage transcription volunteers from around the…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… had a pitched roof, beamed ceiling, and square platform stage. For the elite set, there were reserved chairs in the front rows covered by an…"

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"… baggage, mail or express cars, 645 box cars, 474 platform cars, and 40 service cars). The company either owned or leased almost 355 miles of track."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… this demonstration called for a man to stand on a platform one foot square at the top of the pole, forty feet from the ground, swing his hat in the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"About 11 o’clock AM, an engine and a platform car loaded with sleepers (ties) came across. Quite a crowd of men, women and children collected on the…"

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"… temporary wooden trestles in the water as working platforms for construction of pier foundations, piers, and the steelwork for the roadway."

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.