Maine Memory Network

John Martin: Expert Observer - Duchess Anjoulene apple, Bangor, 1866

"… branches which had the fruit as large as a common pipe stem." Below the apple, he wrote, "4 ft 8 1/2 inches high, Lowest branch 7 inches from the…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1900-1910 - Page 3 of 3

"… dress with horizontally tucked sleeves and black piped detailing, and in Margaret A. McGuire's July 5, 1909 exquisite tussah silk wedding dress…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Poppy print maxi skirt, ca. 1975 - Page 1 of 3

"… cotton plain weave cotton tie that is a double piping decoration. A maxi skirt is a long skirt that reaches the ankles or even brushes the ground."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mt. Zircon Reservoir - Page 3 of 3

"By November 16, 1914, the “water from Mt. Zircon supply was first turned into the pipes for general use."

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

"… McDonald, by bashing her on the head with a metal pipe and then incinerating her body. The furnace was located in the basement of Loring, Short &…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin in Spanish cloak, Bangor, 1846

"… me." In the spring of 1846, he bought the stove pipe hat, which had just come into fashion. He called it a silk, round topped fur hat."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1830-1850 - Page 3 of 3

"… Historical Society With its pointed waist and piped edge front closure, a white damask dress provides a fine example of the 1840s into 1850s…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Lace and fringe trimmed walking dress, ca. 1865 - Page 1 of 4

"… a V-shaped decoration, with two bands of white piping and black machine-made lace. The skirt is lined with an open weave cotton, and the bottom of…"

Historic Hallowell - Industry at the Mouth of the Vaughan Stream

"To use the water, they piped it from a dam into a pipe that came down from a dam and powered the turbine at the other end."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 3 of 4

"… check rustling nylon seersucker dress, with red piped details, pointed collar, dolman sleeves, red plastic belt, and very full ‘circle’ gored skirt…"

Historic Hallowell - The Vaughan Stream & Sawmills

"The way this worked was water behind a dam went into a pipe and a tube called a Penstock. While it was in this tube, the water was so heavy that it…"

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

"… raft as they drifted with the tide, smoking their pipes or sculling violently with single fourteen foot wide bladed oars to keep the rafts straight."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison Fires - 1849 to 1924

"In 1887 the Legislature voted to have water piped to the prison by the Camden and Rockland Water Company."

Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ

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Maine Irish Heritage Center

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Mt. Zircon Reservoir - Page 2 of 3

"McGregor while laying the main 24” pipe, and the onset of the winter of 1913-1914, work was stopped until the spring of 1914."

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 2 of 5

"… after it was built, they raised $944 to buy new pipes and hydrants. The first equipment they had was one linen hose, one two-wheeled hose reel that…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 3 of 4

"After that incident, some shale lodged in the pipe, causing a partial blockage. This incident, along with increased demands to the system, required…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters

"… paddler simply wanted matches to light his pipe. In short, as one local put it, “A birch canoe was a good boat if there was an Indian in it.”…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Chester Greenwood

"He invented other things – a pipe vise, an umbrella holder, and a portable camp. These were never patented."

South Portland Historical Society

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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 3 of 4

"… supply lines and many miles of stainless steel pipe, was installed to deliver the purest of waters to all departments."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Church on the Hill

"… and started it on a firm basis.” In 1917 the Esty pipe organ was installed. Carpeting and interior artistry during the late 1920’s and early '30s…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"… was a lack of water pressure in the town’s water pipes. Although both the International Paper Company and the Oxford Paper Company shut down their…"