Maine Memory Network

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Man on the Street"

""Man on the Street" Street scene, Monument Square, Portland, ca. 1924Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media The Portland Evening Express…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - 1925 National Governors' Association Convention

"1925 National Governors' Association Convention View the National Governors' Convention Slideshow, 1925 On Monday June 29, 1925, over 20 of…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs

"… National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs Power of Potential View the Maine Women's Business Convention Slideshow…"

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

"Crime & Disaster This was the fourth school fire in Portland in 1921 and was of unknown origin. It started in the library, which did not have a…"

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

"Crime & Disaster Crime & Disaster A selection of photographs relating to crime & disaster in the Portland Press Herald Glass Plate Negative…"

Guilford, Maine - PEOPLE

"pulled $21 to make a school for the children living there in the small town of Guilford. This is the history of Robert Low in Guilford."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"Six of these children grew up, married, and started their own families in North Yarmouth, thereby expanding the Loring family’s roots and influence…"

Porter Memorial Library

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Walker Memorial Library

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Kennebunk Free Library

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L.C. Bates Museum/Good Will-Hinckley

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Mount Desert Island Historical Society

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Ridlonville

"Ridlonville was a good place to live and raise children. Children were safe to play anywhere, sliding down the streets in winter, exploring the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"… all day in the factories and then look after the children and household chores when they went home. The work was dangerous and many children lost…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - In the beginning, there were the Wabanaki…

"… conflicts, barely 1,000 Wabanaki men, women, and children remained in Maine. *Today, Wabanakis are divided into the Abenaki, Maliseet, Mi’kmaq…"

Historic Hallowell - Dummer House

"… Dummer moved to Hallowell with his wife and five children. We have learned of the successes and honor that have here crowned his life."

Historic Hallowell - The Stevens Training Center Serenaders

"… a home for the friendless, neglected and vagrant children of the State." X The girls, ages seven through fifteen attended classes and…"

Historic Hallowell - A Walk On The Streets During The Ice Storm

"… a jewel As the sun sets and day turns to night Children play board games by candle light Although the ice storm caused bad weather It brought…"

Historic Hallowell - Johnny Stringer ~ A Character of Industry

"… also made dolls' cradles and bedsteads, for the children of the town, for whom he also had a store of broken--and must we add, to be truthful--very…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 2 of 5

"… the spring, my grandmother, with other women and children would cut the seed potatoes in the potato house."

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Patten Free Library

"The 1962 addition was built to house a children's room, a youth room, a lobby and a lecture hall. Mildred C."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Georges Valley High School

"… to incorporate the community in the education its children, and the Maine Heritage Community Project has been one avenue to help attain this goal."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 2 of 3

"More children were being educated in public or parochial schools, moving on to public, parochial or private high schools--boys and girls."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 3 of 4

"… the Scarborough Marsh is a classroom for school children, a delight for birders, a laboratory for biologists and naturalists, and a prime territory…"