Maine Memory Network

Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 3 of 4

"… as seen in a simple below knee rib rayon princess-line dress with a small blueberry-like spot print."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1940-1950 - Page 2 of 3

"… in a cascade from the waist, showing a wine color lining. It is labelled: ‘Ceil Chapman,’ a designer known for her provocative dresses."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1850-1870 - Page 3 of 4

"The weight of the heavily lined, and very expansive skirt, is carried by an attached cotton bodice designed to fit over the shoulders under the teal…"

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

"… and wires along the corridor, proposing that many lines be put underground and where necessary, concentrating all lines on one string of poles…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 4 of 4

"When calling the operator, one had to be patient, because the person you were calling might be talking on another line."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"Years ago, one of the homes was built with the county line running through the livingroom. Whenever East Dixfield is mentioned, people think of the…"

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

"“Imaginary Lines: Transcending the St. Croix Legacy in the Northeast Borderlands,” Native America and Indigenous Studies, 1.1 (Spring 2014), 49-64."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"The towns had two lines running through them. The earliest, the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad, had opened in 1848 and later became the Grand…"

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."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"… after daylight on Tuesday morn, we formed in a line of battle in the woods and marched out across the battlefield and barged on a fort, the…"

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

"1920New Sweden Historical Society A second line was built into New Sweden. It was an electric railroad known as the Aroostook Valley Rail Road, or…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Narrative History: Maine Swedish Colony

"… West, divided T15-R3 WELS (West of the Easterly Line of the State) into 160-acre lots and offered them - free - to anyone willing to put in the…"

Historic Hallowell - Days 6 & 7

"… New Hampshire came over to help reconnect power lines but they only sent theirs over when there worst places were completed."

Historic Hallowell - Day 8

"… leaving behind ice coated streets, cars, power lines, tree limbs and many houses without heat and power."

Historic Hallowell - History of The Cotton Mill

"The Cotton Mill made jeans, sheeting, coat lining, and prints. At its height in 1866, there were two hundred people working at the mill at one time."

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

"… two quick strokes of a tiny axe, and then running lines the whole length of the raft with a clove hitch over each pin."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Adventures in Aroostook County - Page 2 of 3

"JJeremiah worked for Delta Air Lines for seventeen years. After leaving the Delta, he went to work in landscaping and plumbing, which is his job…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"… as a threat to business and expanded their lines through Washburn, Mapleton, Perham, Woodland, New Sweden, Wade, Castle Hill, and Chapman."

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

"Railroading began in Aroostook with a short line from Woodstock to Houlton in 1870. The arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railroad to Caribou and then…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Additions and New Wing - 1824 to 1843

"The cells were placed off large halls, lined with windows capable of being moved on pulleys and weights."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1940 to Present Day

"A time-line chiseled into a granite wall in the business section on Main Street highlights important events in the town’s history, and Thomaston…"

Life on a Tidal River - Fashion of the '40s

"… an illusion of hose, and some drew thin pencil lines on the backs of their calves to create an illusion of the hose seam."

Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 3 of 3

"Product lines were soon expanded to include toys, furniture parts, hobby and craft items, dowels of all sorts, and primarily, golf tees."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 2 of 4

"Rail lines, roads and a pipeline across the marsh also negatively impacted the area, disturbing the hydrology, soils and natural vegetation and…"