Maine Memory Network

Historic Clothing Collection - 1890-1900 - Page 1 of 3

"… Lewiston, Libby's in Portland, and in small town dry-goods stores. Reasonably priced plain skirts, jackets, and blouses that became the norm for…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Expands - 1805 to 1846

"… ports, his ships returning with salt, coal, dry goods and hardware. His store, one of three businesses at an area referred to as the Upper Corner…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5

"… the town with valuable shops, meeting spaces, dry goods stores and a barber shop. The Tuscan Opera House was built in 1891."

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

"… brew, women draped the long strands over lines to dry in the island breeze, creating colorful curtains of blue, red, and green."

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 2 of 5

"… hose house had high towers for hanging hose to dry and a large stove to heat. Upstairs in the house there was a room for the meetings to be held…"

Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"… the Surry citizens whose community was as tinder dry as Mount Desert Island. Fortunately Surry had no major problems, but the citizens who had been…"

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

"… current day where we use whiteboards also know as dry-erase boards. These are much easier to write on and erase."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"They also sold large dried codfish, which customers would take home to hang in their cellars. In January, 1866, the store burned, but a portion was…"

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"The Abenakis dried their seafood they caught during the summer, and brought it back to the villages to eat."

Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"The mills dried themselves off and were going full tilt once again, a $20 million state-of-the-art yarn manufacturing facility was planned by…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… local homes, to support other local needs in this little town of a little over 1600 people. Sources: History of Peru (in the County of Oxford and…"

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

"… each day to pick up local products, or to deliver dry goods, furniture and other items to local residents."

Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"The furs are hung and dried, then sent to Bangor where they tan the pelts. Mrs. Lewis, a woman who owns the little store down the street, is bidding…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"One side of Lowell's was devoted to dry goods such as: overalls, Aunt Lydia’s carpet thread, bolts of cloth, lamp chimneys, medicines and tooth…"

Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community

"… Mount Desert Island hit Maine during an extremely dry autumn. The entire Mercy staff stood on high alert to deal with the fires, which eventually…"

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"Ebb and Flow "What is good for Dow is good for Bangor." Robert N. Haskell, 1959 Despite its best efforts, the United States could no longer avoid…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"The ink was barely dry on the non-compete agreements they had signed with the cartel, when they set up a company with eventually four canneries that…"

Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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