Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - About Our Project

"… Network features a constantly growing online collection of more than 18,000 historical items contributed by more than 200 historical organizations…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - About Us - Page 1 of 3

"They have a wonderful collection of books and artifacts, and they enjoy genealogy. Crystal Knapp Polk teaches social studies and reading at the…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - The Crew

"… mission of SIES to provide library and historical collections services for the community of Swan's Island."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Byron

"The Historical Society has a collection of artifacts and old photos on display. It is open to the public every Saturday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm."

Lithgow Public Library

"The library holds a collection of around 65,000 books, periodicals, and audiovisual items, along with access to millions of others through Maine…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 1 of 5

"Just as the large manuscript collections of the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors reveal dramatic conflict over land claims in the mid-coast region…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 2 of 2

"Noyes is responsible for the creation of the majority of proprietor records within the Pejepscot collection."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 1 of 5

"Indeed, as documents in the Barclay collection reveal, they were ultimately the basis on which the modern US-Canada border was determined."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"Others were in the area collecting plants and insects and marine invertebrates and inspecting geology in the late nineteenth century, but the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 5 of 6

"… plants at Reef Point (including the extensive collection of rhodora) and incorporated the Farrand collection into his visions for the Asticou pond…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"(William Otis Sawtelle Collection, Acadia National Park) X Clearly, Loring had special affection for Mount Desert Island, for he spent part of…"

Historic Hallowell - Logging

"… Company was where all the logs got delivered and collected and also contained floating logs timbered from nearby forests."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 4 of 4

"… A very important type of artifact not in the collection of Lubec Landmarks. Hall saw them in use to “break up” the salt and fish in the brining…"

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"Images are from the collection of the Bangor Public Library. Have you heard of the big fire On April thirtieth day Down in Bangor city Not many miles…"

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

"… wore tall hats with wide bands, and as they collected letters along the way, they tucked them into those hatbands."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House

"… Peter Stowell, DHS Historian DHS Ephemera Collection Loraine Welch Smith Scrapbooks, DHS Collection #028 Rose Family Diaries, DHS Coll.#122…"

Mercy Hospital - Growth & Expansion - Page 2 of 2

"The hospital made up the balance through several efforts, including the Catholic Charities Drive, which collected around $40,000."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… of the upper Allagash River and from surface collections of plowed fields on the George Sawyer farm in Ashland."

Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School

"… Item courtesy of the University of Maine Special Collections. X Garland Street Jr. High School, Bangor, ca."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Architecture

"… architectural treasures, however, is the collection of photographs of Swedish Colony homes taken in 1922 by Olaf Nylander."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Savage Family of Mount Desert

"… uncatalogued but extensive Savage family private collections of original correspondence, photographs, maps, written and oral histories, business…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - About Us

"… Network features a constantly growing online collection of nearly 35,000 historical items contributed by over 250 historical organizations around…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"… would be used to help spin the ice down into the collection. Once they got to the ice house they would be stored in sawdust to keep cool and…"

Historic Hallowell - Carvers and Quarrymen

"A letter in the Hubbard Library collection from the Socialist Workers Party headquarters in New York City dated March 13,1895 to Protasio Neri showed…"