Maine Memory Network

John Martin: Expert Observer - Marcellus Emery, Bangor, ca. 1864

"Marcellus Emery, Bangor, ca. 1864 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description John Martin (1823-1904), a…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - First Baptist Church, Bangor, ca. 1850

"First Baptist Church, Bangor, ca. 1850 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description John Martin of Bangor…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Bangor High School, Abbott Square, 1865

"Bangor High School, Abbott Square, 1865 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description Noted Bangor architect…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Division Street School, Bangor, 1865

"Division Street School, Bangor, 1865 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description John Martin (1823-1904)…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Third Parish Church, Bangor, 1865

"Third Parish Church, Bangor, 1865 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description The south side and west end…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Interior plans, Third Parish Church, Bangor, 1865

"Interior plans, Third Parish Church, Bangor, 1865 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description The plans of…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Primary and intermediate school, Bangor, 1865

"Primary and intermediate school, Bangor, 1865 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description The primary and…"

Historic Hallowell - Industrial Recources

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

Historic Hallowell - Sweat on the Kennebec ~ Hallowell Steam and Boom Company

"The river is calm and workers are dressed in pants and long sleeved shirts. Hallowell was the location of the great sorting boom for down-river mills."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"(Sometimes the dress of choice would be selected, only to find the belt missing, causing a delay of several minutes while the vendor frantically…"

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."

Early Maine Photography - Human Interest

"Equally well dressed is young Ernest Perry, who stands next to a chair with his drum. Eleanor Peters, ca."

Early Maine Photography - Portland Photographers

"… made a daguerreotype of Augustus Fox, a dapperly dressed young Portland barrel maker. In 1850 Ormsbee sold his business to his longtime assistant…"

Early Maine Photography - Art

"… tintype copy of an oil painting of a man in the dress of the 1830s or 40s. This uncropped photograph (at right) reveals a portrait placed before…"

Early Maine Photography - Family Groups

"A well-dressed family sat for Charles L. Marston of Bangor between 1856 and 1859. Marston skillfully posed the seven sitters - a father, mother…"

Lincoln, Maine - Osgood's Store

"The “Cove” room carried daytime and evening dresses, coats, jackets, robes, and hats. Osgood’s did 90 percent of their buying at the Boston and New…"

Lincoln, Maine - Solomon's Store

"… that Solomon’s Store sold clothes of all sorts: dresses, socks, pants, shorts, and the best “knickers” everyone thought."

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

"… scanty means.” For Mass, Wabanaki women usually dressed in their finest. As one local stated, alongside the island girls, an Indian woman going to…"

Early Maine Photography - Occupational

"The lady’s plain dress and her old rocking chair indicate a rural origin for this tintype. Tintype of woman knitting, ca."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"… women who worked at the laundry, deciding to dress up in some of the fancy dresses they were supposed to be washing, and having their picture taken…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilding

"… the adze, a tool like an axe used for shaping and dressing wood. It was different from an axe because it had a long and slender, curved blade set…"

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."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House

"… and dance hall on the ground floor, balcony and dressing rooms on the second floor, and the IOOF Lodge on the third floor, as well as attic space."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Church on the Hill

"… girls were adorned in new Easter hats and pretty dresses that were beautifully puffed out with crinoline petty coats underneath; the boys looked…"