Maine Memory Network

Early Maine Photography - Art

"Some Maine artists offered the option to have portraits painted based on photographic images. Others used photography to document their work and…"

Early Maine Photography - Occupational

"In contrast is the elegant appearance of Portland artists John Greenleaf Cloudman and Charles Frederick Kimball."

Early Maine Photography - Portland Photographers

"Hanscom, who signed himself as a "traveling artist" on a circa 1860 ambrotype of Adam Winslow and his grandson Adam."

Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 1 of 2

"Warren. While Leland’s artist remains unknown, the Day portrait was the work of Portland portrait painter Charles O. Cole."

Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 2 of 2

"… Deering sisters are fashionably dressed and artistically posed around their mother, Anna Margaret Holwell Deering. The daughter of Major John Z."

Early Maine Photography - Studio Portraits

"… the Portland Advertiser that he had "engaged an artist of acknowledged merit to design furniture, etc., etc."

Early Maine Photography - Art - Page 2 of 2

"Of the painters, sculptors, and carvers who worked in the city, George Henry Bailey pursued the dual professions of artist and veterinarian."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Artists and Inventors of Biddeford

"Artists and Inventors of Biddeford Creativity has flourished throughout Biddeford's history. Particularly in the arts and technology, the folks in…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …next came the artists and rusticators.

"…next came the artists and rusticators. Thomas Cole’s View across Frenchman’s Bay from Mount Desert Island after a Squall, 1845. Oil on canvas."

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.

NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters Historic Site

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Lincoln, Maine - Main Street

"… SELF-EXPRESSIVE (taking a non-traditional, often artistic, approach to a topic). The responses reflect a variety of perspectives on the topic—all…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Adelaide Pearson

"… she was a seminal figure in attracting artists and craftspeople to the area, creating the foundation for Blue Hill's growth as a cultural center…"

Blue Hill, Maine - The Musical Culture of Blue Hill

"… now accepts a total of 50 pre-professional young artists (20 violinists, 14 cellists, 9 violists and 7 pianists)."

Lincoln, Maine - Wartime Lincoln

"… SELF-EXPRESSIVE (taking a non-traditional, often artistic, approach to a topic). The responses reflect a variety of perspectives on the topic—all…"

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"… – most luxuriant and George Tozier – most artistic. The evening ended with a magnificent Sesquicentennial Ball."

Blue Hill, Maine - Project Sources

"Perkins, V.C. A Mining Boom in Maine: Blue Hill, 1876-1883, Reprinted from an issue in New England Quarterly. Porter Joseph W."

Blue Hill, Maine - Welcome to the town of Blue Hill!

"… day, farmers, fishermen, merchants, educators, artists, summer residents, and retirees have come to call Blue Hill their home."

Blue Hill, Maine - Swimming, Blue Hill, 1907

"… Swimming at the Bathing Beach in Blue Hill during the summer of 1907. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

Blue Hill, Maine - Picnicking, Blue Hill, 1907

"… Description Picnicking along the coast of Blue Hill in 1907. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

Blue Hill, Maine - Mary Ellen Chase

"She wrote 39 books and countless articles, many of them dealing with the Coast of Maine and its people. (Image of Mary Ellen Chase)"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… a different Dorcas Osgood from Maine (although Maine was Massachusetts at the time, this Dorcas was from the "Maine" area)."

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"A gifted artist, Stevens made most of these renderings himself. The Stevens Collection at the Maine Historical Society includes several notable…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Jonathan Fisher: Unlocking the Person Beyond the Parson

"… his ministerial calling by producing a book with artistic representations of Scripture Animals. His father died in 1777 while serving in the…"