Maine Memory Network

Lubec Historical Society

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Gate no 7 design, Bangor, 1867

"… Society Description "This gate I have designed for my own special benefit," John Martin, a Bangor accountant and shopkeeper wrote on page…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Revenue gunboat "Mahoning," Bangor, 1864

"He wrote, "I took my son Junior & crossed to Brewer & sketched her from the Brick Wharf oposite Steam Boat wharf."

Historic Hallowell - Earning Our Keep Resources

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 2 of 3

"… though, so when we started off from the hospital I started coming this way (north) and when James saw the sign for Old Town he said, “This isn’t…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Lockheed 10A, Presque Isle, 1940

"… airfield became an Army Air Base during World War I. A U.S. Army Air Corp Douglas C-47 is in the background."

Lisbon Historical Society

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Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm In Hallowell

"Cold and me don’t mix so well. Enduring blistering winds and never-ending power outages. See what I mean? Tree branches are snapping, and ice is…"

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

"… sent a letter to you the 7th with Ed Kent but as I received one from you yesterday daited June 29th & 30th I thought best to answer it."

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

"“I just left them there for awhile, but I thought I should do something,” Badershall said. When she showed them to social studies teacher Crystal…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Building Boom and Piers above the Falls

"I think I can buy hardwood logs if wish to so that as to timber we can be supplied. As to the filling, it seems to me that as there is a large amount…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin in Spanish cloak, Bangor, 1846

"… circular block for 15$ which was as nice a one as I could see and it came to my boot tops perhaps below & as I was some deformed it was a very…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Wood pile, 130 Center St., Bangor, ca. 1864

"… he wrote, "In drawing the house & L had I been artist enough to show a Jog I might & wished to represent this wood pile but in giving the L on a…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Fred Ryder, Bangor, 1864

"… wrote, "I claim the change in this boy which I wrought wholly by my advice and kind usage, and he is the third boy which I have influenced and…"

Historic Hallowell - Henry Pope Clearwater Ph.D.~ Patient Medicine Mass Marketer

"… there is any Good which I may do any Happiness I may give or Gladness I can create, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Woodrow Wilson

"When I got out of there I was ready to go home. But there was nothing, no airplanes come up and I just didn’t get home then so I had to stay there…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2

"And so I did walk all over Hallowell taking as many pictures as I could of churches, and City Hall, and the Fire Station."

Abbe Museum

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Seaside Hall

"… it back new.” Somebody broke a little window, I can’t remember who it was now, but anyway he says, “When I come back tomorrow night, the window…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - "A Little Daisy," Katahdin Iron Works, 1890

"… chamber to see me draw & paint the Iron works & I soon found he had a natural tact for drawing." Martin was writing and illustrating a "scrapbook"…"

Baldwin Historical Society

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Margaret Chase Smith Library

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Ocean View Hotel

"She used to take my brother, of course he’d fall asleep on the settees and that was fine, but not me, boy—music, I right up and at ‘em! I remember—we…"