Maine Memory Network

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

"Zeltin. Georgia Tracey’s dry goods store sold clothing, fabric, stockings, and more. There was a barber shop operated by Lyman Haskell and a fish…"

Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

"Also, steamboats were used for shipping food, lumber and clothes that were not on the railroad out of Lincoln to the rest of the towns and cities on…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"Palmer Dry Goods (1868-1876) William P. Hill Dry Goods (1876-1883) Webber’s Drugstore (1883-1933) Burnham’s Auto Supply (1933-1953) Fullerton’s Radio…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"… the ease of providing food, shelter, and clothing for their families. The surrounding forests provided wood for building and fuel, berries, and…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 3 of 3

"… Library These citizens would either have food, clothing or medicine brought to their home if they had one, or if they had no home they would join…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipping

"What came into Hallowell were product such as cloth, wine, sugar loaves, molasses, rum, shoes, tools, different types of food that they did not…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston is Incorporated - 1777

"… returning with cargoes of flour, bolts of cloth and manufactured goods. Profitable trading necessitated the shipbuilding industry, which later was…"

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

"… and propriety continued as ways to assure a good reputation as well as entry into "high" or "higher" society."

John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 1 of 2

"… was viewed as honest, hardworking, and a good citizen. Economic success was more elusive, a disappointment for Martin and, perhaps, one of the…"

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

"… cooking, tending children, washing and mending clothes, skinning and stretching hides, braiding sweetgrass, preparing ash strips, weaving baskets…"

Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"It was said that the lines of clothing, hardware, shoes, and ship chandlery were the best east of Bangor. Lubec stores seemed primitive by comparison."

Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilding

"… logs to put in their ships and huge quantities of cloth for the masts and sails. To construct the mast, they would get large wood and make a long…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… By 1870, Surry was producing goods for the clothing, building, and shipping industries, plus it housed a carding mill, tannery, stave mill, shingle…"

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 2 of 3

"Office panel systems, constructed of cloth over metal frames were becoming popular at this time, and the newly developed flame retardant process…"

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 1 of 2

"The dining room, kitchen, Jackson's Clothing Store, Ross Drug Store, the United States Post Office, and Mrs."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"Shipbuilders needed clothes, gloves, boots and more, and they turned to Sears Roebuck for affordable clothing."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Ledyard Block

"… office in the building until 1891 and a men's clothing store from 1892-1907. Then came the Shelter Institute and Woodbutcher tools from 1991-1999…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"They hunted. They made their clothing at home, beginning with raising the sheep and then weaving the wool."

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 3 of 4

"… Horses and Mules; A large lot of Boots & shoes; cloth ect. ect. I can assure you that Maine has got its name up during this campaign and so high…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 1 of 4

"… the boards with chunks of chalk and erased with cloth rags. Soon, the slate board was invented and it was then that teachers switched to cylinders…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"… overalls, Aunt Lydia’s carpet thread, bolts of cloth, lamp chimneys, medicines and tooth powder. On the other side: cracker barrels, cheese wheels…"

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

"There were barber shops, clothing stores and many convenient stores and restaurants. All of these great jobs and opportunities went downhill when the…"

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"… and Japanese folks gathered together in everyday clothes, belting out a moving rendition of a chorus from Aida, accompanied by two or more pianos…"