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John Martin: Expert Observer - Part 6, pages 97-113

"… with his own commentary on the events of that day, including illustrations, one of which is a canoe race on Kenduskeag Stream."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Ladies Blush apple, Bangor, 1889

"… and died, my children feasted on this tree all the days it bore." View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Boy at Bangor post Civil War parade, 1865

"… He added that the boys had been drilled several days before marching in the parade. Martin's descriptions and illustrations are on page 105 of…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - First balloon ascension, Bangor, 1857

"… magnificient sights I ever witnessed in all my day. I had read and heard of men going above the clouds, I now had the reality before me and I made…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrapbook 3: 1867-

"… our food and raiment depends on the issue of the day as much as the question does whether we shall be governed by foreign ideas and Policies or…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 1 of 13

"… own use to stiffen cloth for fancy shirts or dresses. By the 1890’s large crews were needed to harvest potatoes."

John Martin: Expert Observer - John and Clara Martin wedding hack, Bangor, 1850

"… the hack that transported them on their wedding day. He wrote, "This hack cost a thousand dollars and was owned by Mess Shaw & Billings and was…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Bangor Quartette Club, 1849

"… house Hampden which has been in fashion to this day & I have one of them on now while writing this description." The drawing is one of two Martin…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Hampden Town House, 1849

"… wrote, "The Old Town House in Hampden has to this day a quantity of powder & balls which were deposited there by the fathers of this section which…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Thomas White Dry Good Emporium, Bangor, 1864

"He reportedly signed up 110 men in two days for the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery, in which he became a captain."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Pendleton & Ross stand, Bangor, 1864

"He wrote, "During those days they were the largest stores in the city built of wood and were filled with dry goods groceries Rum hard ware fish salt…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Millerite camp meeting, Orrington, 1844

"… "This ever remembered occasion was about the last days of Miller doctrine in this part of the county." View additional information about this item…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Picnic, Fort Point Light, and Fort Pownal, 1865

"… down river before and I concluded to give the day to the whole family so we prepared eatables & other articles and all started accompanied by…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin cone cedar tree, Bangor, 1866

"… business practices and most other subjects of his day, drew this illustration of a cone cedar tree he transplanted to his yard on October 25, 1866."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Joseph Mitchell and Mutual Store wagon, Bangor, 1865

"… "This store has been a curse to me ever since the day it was established it has made no difference what article I have offered for sale the first…"

Historic Hallowell - Industrial Recources

"… Adze was a shipright's tool used for shaping and dressing wood while the Auger was used for drilling holes."

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

"I can show in my garden to day the handsomest & best rustic chair in Bangor & I waltzed & march as writen red 2 pages back & I can to day put up as…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Dancing Fraternity, City of Bangor, 1868

"… of Bangor led a "grand march" at an inauguration day dance in Dexter. A newspaper account noted, "All the intricate evolutions were carried out in…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"As one local stated, alongside the island girls, an Indian woman going to church “looked like a bird-of-paradise in a barn-yard.” From Bar Harbor…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn

"The Days sold to Errol Dearborn. (He was President of the Normal School at that time) Dearborn and wife sold to Bernard "Bing" Etzel; Mr."

Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay

"… up in the circular driveway to deposit their well dressed patrons. It wasn’t only for the well-to-do."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Healthcare Center of Eastern and Central Maine - Page 2 of 2

"The other division became a doctor’s lounge, dressing room, conference room, and library. St. Joseph Hospital operating room, Bangor, ca. 1960St."

Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen

"… gown for the ball? S: Well, Peacock’s bought my dress and my shoes and had my hair done. They paid for all that, and the bouquet – a dozen red…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"… in all of New England, producing cashmere and dress goods. This plant was enlarged and a floor added in 1907."