Maine Memory Network

Early Maine Photography - War

"Private Charles H. Ring, an eighteen year old carriage trimmer from Newport, enlisted as a musician in Company E of the Sixteenth Maine Regiment on…"

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"26, box i, folder 19 in full]. The Passamaquoddy Homeland had been dramatically disrupted when loyalist refugees, including commission officials like…"

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 2 of 4

"I have written to Willy, and shall write again this afternoon. I have not got the Papers that you spoke of yet but shall expect them tonight."

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Railroad Station

"Newell, the president of B.I.W., gave the station a weather vane depicting a destroyer at the start of World War II."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… shipping halted, the ice was harvested by a Hampden company, Dirigo Ice Company and shipped to cities in the south to help aid in refrigeration."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"… to his house where with my wife and child and I took supper After supper I took the boy in my arms and started for the pinnacle."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… halted, the ice was harvested by a Hampden company, Dirigo Ice Company, and shipped to cities in the south to help aid in refrigeration."

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… has sent a petition to be incorporated; the name I can not like very well, nor am I alone in my opinion,” Ross wrote."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Dreamland and Liberty

"… Liberty Theatre, to honor the end of World War I. After the Liberty Theatre closed in 1923, the building then became the Liberty Garage in 1924…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4

"WW I, the Depression of the 30's, and WW II all developed during Hugh J.'s term as President of Oxford."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - West New Portland Village

"Weese of Chicago. The company was called Carrabassett Dowel Company. Some of the local people found employment at this mill."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"Hyde, was the founder of B.I.W. 114 and 116 Front Street are part of the block of buildings built and paid for by John Tucker, Captain William…"

Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas

"… Bank in Fryeburg (1922), the Fidelity Trust Company Bank in South Portland (1928), the Canal Bank in Portland (1930), and the Fidelity Trust…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1910-1920 - Page 2 of 2

"… Historical Society During the World War I period (1914-1918) the wider, shorter skirts and peplum jackets worn by women in uniform or engaged in…"

Historic Clothing Collection - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 2 of 2

"… art (2019), Designing Acadia (2017), World War I and the Maine Experience (2017), Fashionable Maine: early twentieth century clothing (2016), and…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 4 of 6

"… "Before we got through with this matter I could count about 70 poles which were taken away."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and the Civil War

"The air reeks with nastiness.” Another prisoner said, “Since the day I was born, I never saw such misery.”"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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

"… & I waltzed & march as writen red 2 pages back & I can to day put up as many goods as matts Sfastedt 40 years younger than I am) John Martin…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrapbook 3: 1867-

"… against their own best interests. Martin wrote, "I have devoted a large portion of this book to politicks because our food and raiment depends on…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"I would say they got their money’s worth for that fence. The early band stand was built in 1874 by a fine carpenter, Henry Sprague, to be used by…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"The Bangor, Hampden & Winterport Electric Company trolley, Hampden, circa 1900Hampden Historical Society Easily accessible from Bangor and Brewer by…"