Maine Memory Network

Early Maine Photography - Early Maine Photography at Maine Historical Society

"… offers extensive insight into the history of the state of Maine, as well as to the development of photography as a technology, discipline, art…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - 1925 National Governors' Association Convention

"The guns were fired from Ft. Williams, the horns came from the 5th Maine Infantry band, and whistles were from the steamboat Calvin Austin."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Allies & Allegiance: Military comradery at the Centennial, 1920

"The state of Maine invited European and Asian allied nations to join the festivities, with an opportunity to demonstrate newly formed and established…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection

"This “Maine-first” policy dealt with Maine products, Maine problems, politics, and people from the typical "man on the street," to the Governor of…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Aviation

"… Maine that aviation had finally "arrived" in the state. Frances Grayson On October 10, 1927, female aviator Frances Wilson Grayson, along with her…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Aerial Photography

"… to capture major events and scenes throughout Maine. Geographic features, natural disasters, and celebrations were all better documented through…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans"

"Rachel Miller was once an education assistant at Maine Historical Society and a student in the University of Southern Maine's New England and…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Icons & Influencers

"The Portland Evening Express was a Maine pioneer in this new publication style. The paper began featuring photographs under owner Colonel Fred Dow…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Wiscasset's Arctic Connection

"… Slide Show Text by Cindy Dykes Images from Maine Historical Society, Blethen Maine Newspapers Explorer, scientist, author and teacher Donald B."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs

"… Women's Clubs Power of Potential View the Maine Women's Business Convention Slideshow Delegates from the National Federation of Business…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Along the Waterfront

"… the White House, and met with members of the Maine Congressional delegation. Captain Berlin on the S.S. Isaac T."

Early Maine Photography - Art

"… local government and represented the town in the state legislature. In contrast to the Treadwell and Chapman portraits, the elegant mid-nineteenth…"

Early Maine Photography - Occupational Photography

"… presence of a farmer and a sailor on the Maine State Seal symbolizes the importance of agricultural and maritime activities to the state’s economy…"

Early Maine Photography - Portland Photographers

"… to village in coastal and rual areas of the state. Such was the case of Almond W. Hanscom, who signed himself as a "traveling artist" on a circa…"

Early Maine Photography - War - Page 2 of 2

"Some Mainers such as Randall Tolman Gammon of Machias joined out-of-state regiments. Private Gammon served in the 39th Massachusetts before…"

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 2 of 3

"He held the rank of major general in the state militia during the War of 1812. The hardships experienced by Maine during the war prompted King to…"

Early Maine Photography - War - Page 1 of 2

"Legend often states Conrad Heyer was the first white child born in the German immigrant community of Waldoboro."

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 2

"… landmark church appears in an ambrotype of the stately Federal style Unitarian-Universalist Church of 1831-32 in Castine. George W."

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3

"… with its Ionic columns and saucer dome as a new state capitol that would bring state government back to Portland from Augusta."

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 3 of 3

"… images in the Collection were taken out of state. In 1853 the White Mountain guide Joseph A. Hall proposed to Abner Lowell, a Portland jeweler and…"

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 1 of 3

"… Madison served as Thomas Jefferson’s Secretary of State from 1801 to 1809, succeeding him in the presidency from 1809 to 1817."

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"… third term, he traveled from Portland, then the state capital, to Augusta to speak at the cornerstone laying ceremony for the new State House."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Sports

"Sports High School Sports View a High School Sports Slideshow Sports, as in newspapers around the globe, occupied a prominent role in the…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Man on the Street"

""Man on the Street" Street scene, Monument Square, Portland, ca. 1924Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media The Portland Evening Express…"