Maine Memory Network

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Mildred Thomas and Harold Sawyer, ca. 1910

"This photo is unusual as most of his pictures were landscapes, and very rarely included people. Sawyer gave the photograph to the Thomas family where…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Fabric Adaptive Reuse

"… the job was much more extensive as this informative and unusual group of surviving items from the Maine Historical Society collection illustrates."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The John Ruggles House

"… keystone arches, features a window surround with unusual glass pattern. The interior doorways have elegant proportions with fine moldings."

Haystack Historical Society

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Stockholm Historical Society

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 3 of 4

"… overskirt 'polonaise' styling gave way to the unusually slim silhouette called cuirasse (a French word meaning close fitting, like armor), of which…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1850-1870 - Page 3 of 4

"… sleeves and frizzé fringe braid trimming with an unusual stepped velvet motif; a gathered lavender and rose warp print with two bodices, one for…"

Historic Hallowell - Martha Ballard

"… the appearance in town of what had to be a truly unusual event, the arrival of an itinerant "Negro woman doctor." Just who this unfortunately…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Bob's Bears

"… backyard of our home on Short Wharf, I heard some unusual woofing or growling noises coming from the Souadabscook Stream on the upper side of…"

Telephone Museum

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Ste. Agathe Historical Society

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Tate House Museum

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1970-1980 - Page 3 of 3

"… Society Perhaps the most elegant, and certainly unusual, evening dress in the collection is a Geoffrey Beene long gray wool A-line, high waist…"

Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"However, a much more lethal (and seasonally unusual) second wave flared up in August 1918. Medical historians have found that the H1N1 strain of…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House

"The building was unusual at that time for its fire-proof construction with iron beams inside the stone walls."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"One of the more unusual attractions was live alligators and snakes displayed in pools. The 4th of July was an especially popular time to visit the…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - A Murder In Strong

"He claimed that he took an unusual route to the pasture. He followed a creek bed and went under a bridge because if he had been walking on the road…"

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

"… become a woman of property in an era when it was unusual for a married woman to own land in her own name. Olin died in 1922."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"An unusual feature of this ferry was that it only went half way to an island. Passengers then would ford the river to Peru."

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's Journal

"It is an unusual picture of an area because of the illustrations, the detail, and the combination of public and private – how business operated, how…"

Mercy Hospital - Sisters of Mercy

"McAuley grew up in unusual circumstances, as the daughter of a middle class Irish Catholic family. (In British-ruled Ireland at the time, Protestants…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"It wasn’t unusual, on weekends, to see crowds of up to 10,000, but on one particular day, the park hosted a record number of patrons."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… them from the others.” (Anne Dolan) Due to its unusual geography, the town was unofficially split into four distinct regions: East Surry, Newbury…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… local collectors and preservationists created an unusual historical time capsule that helped make Farmington exceptional."