Maine Memory Network

Presque Isle: The Star City - Phair House, the Bellstead and the Social Security Building

"Phair House, the Bellstead and the Social Security Building X Text by Sebastian and Scott, students at Presque Isle Middle School Images from…"

Acton-Shapleigh Historical Society

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Captain Samuel Watts House

"… crash of 1857, shipyard owners were financially secure. Thomaston’s Captain Samuel Watts and business entrepreneur Edward O’Brien both ran…"

Blue Hill, Maine - A New Look at an Old Painting

"… – in its depiction of an Edenic place made secure for the sunbonneted women on the left, as the male figure in the foreground drives a snake from…"

Maine Department of Transportation

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Hannibal Hamlin, Bangor, 1866

"… of the nation without a sufficient guarantee to secure in future our civil, moral, and religious rights." Hamlin was a lawyer in Hampden before…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 4 of 4

"… A sturdy metal half hoop bustle support is still securely sewn into the lining of a ca. 1880 wine-colored taffeta bustle skirt."

Historic Hallowell - Prisons and Firearms

"Today's jails are cleaner and more secure than in the 1900’s, and people who commit crimes in Hallowell are sent to the Kennebec County Jail."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 3 of 6

"… an underutilized resource for British success and security. Amid expanding imperial warfare, Maine offered a strategic location, diplomatic access…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 5 of 6

"Legal title would secure their ability to subsist off the land and to produce for markets, and it would assure that they could pass that prosperity…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 2 of 5

"… leader Warrabitta, known also as Jane or Joan, secured an annual “acknowledgment” of “a bushel of corn,” alongside her mother, from the Alger…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 1 of 2

"But that family security did not last, either. Adams was charged with brutally murdering his wife on May 12, 1815."

Historic Hallowell - The Tiger and the Lion

"… has been no record to show when the old lion was secured. The Lion was replaced by another fire engine called the Torrent."

Lincoln, Maine - Mills & Paper Industry - Page 2 of 2

"… together and independently raised $350,000 to secure financing to re-open the mill. August 1968: Standard Packaging transfers ownership to the…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 2 of 3

"Members might help another veteran get a job or secure a loan. The GAR helped establish soldiers' homes in sixteen states and orphanages in seven…"

Mercy Hospital - Growth & Expansion - Page 1 of 2

"… relationship to the greater Portland community, securing over $300,000 from 6,831 individual donors in a public subscription drive."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 6 of 6

"… European peoples sought to survive, to thrive, to secure their visions for the future, and to find meaning in a contested world."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 1 of 5

"… “the Kennebec Proprietors desperately sought” to secure their own claims against “the opposing claims of the Pejepscot Proprietors and the Clarke…"

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

"Parties wishing to Hunt or Camp in Maine can secure an Excellent Guide by addressing Joe Pierpoll, Princeton, Maine, the best Indian guide in the…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Industry Expands - 1850 to 1857

"… rigging and sheets (ropes or lines used to secure a sail) to hoist sails. Sails were cut and sewn at the sail lofts of Washburn & Sons and William…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Island Postmistresses

"… here at that time Letters were merely folded and secured with sealing wax no envelopes were used Postage was charged according to the distance the…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959

"… at Presque Isle High School builds the frame to secure the tree on the truck and railroad flatcar."

Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community

"Elizabeth’s between 1966 and 1968, remembered the security the home provided. “Most of the girls that lived there came from homes that were…"

Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"… “The new bronze souvenirs have arrived and may be secured from C. H. Clark (Department Store) at 25 cents each.” So advertised the Lubec Herald…"