Maine Memory Network

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"She had become a woman of property in an era when it was unusual for a married woman to own land in her own name. Olin died in 1922."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old House (circa 1820-2013)

"His wife, Mabelle Strout Savage, is the left-most woman standing on the porch with her right arm leaning on the porch post."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Aviation

"… 1927, and she became determined to be the first woman to match his feat. Miss Grayson landed in Maine to much fanfare and excitement."

Historic Hallowell - Post Office and Fire Station

"… OfficeHubbard Free Library Judy Longfellow, Post Woman written by Sam Gilbert Q How old were you? A An Adult Q Did you still go to work? A…"

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

"… bring their designs to the average American woman. Said to be a Dior design, but lacking any labeling, the collection's 1960s bouffant short prom…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Elizabeth Akers Allen, née Chase

"A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life…"

Early Maine Photography - Occupational

"The lady’s plain dress and her old rocking chair indicate a rural origin for this tintype. Tintype of woman knitting, ca."

Lubec, Maine - The Gardner Lake Tragedy - Page 1 of 2

"… Gardner Lake Tragedy Miriam Kelley as a young woman X Images from the family of Miriam Kelley Doherty Research and text by Seth Doherty…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Schools

"Inez Matthews Pendleton, a local woman who attended Wellesley College, was Islesboro’s first woman superintendent in 1905. When Mrs."

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

"… dancing as partners, the man's hand on the woman's waist, the two facing one another – and often were criticized as vulgar or sinful and therefore…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"… involved was because of the movie “The Strange Woman”. The movie was set in Bangor, 1824. There were several pro-Temperance organizations with…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"… filmmaking pioneer Maurice Tourneur's movie Woman (1918), John van den Broeck, a 23-year-old Dutch cinematographer, slipped and fell from a cliff…"

Historic Hallowell - A Post-Revolutionary Generation

"Vaughan quickly realized that Peabody was a woman of exceptional ability with strong intellectual aspirations."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Man Rats Out Brady Gang - Page 1 of 2

"Shep married a woman named Margarite Littlefield. They were together when they had their first daughter, but divorced when she was five years old."

Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

"Ira married a woman named Almeda and had at least two sons and one daughter. Ira Fish died in about 1870 at eighty years old."

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

"… classroom teacher was usually an unmarried young woman, sometimes with students even older than herself."

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

"a man or woman boy or girl may look back and sigh for some small relic hereby to enliven their memory perhaps in a distant county when even a person…"

Mercy Hospital - McAuley Residence

"… environment, with the expectation that a woman take the steps and give her best effort to realizing her full potential.” Howard Buckley, CEO of…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"Mary Snow was famous for being the first woman school superintendent in Maine. In Bangor she was a teacher, principal, school board member, and then…"

Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"Mrs. Lewis, a woman who owns the little store down the street, is bidding $4,000 for our oldest and largest fox on the farm."

Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area

"They killed the woman and a child and Bomazeen ran to warn the others in the village. He was shot down in the river where it is still today called…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"She was a very motivated woman and did many great things despite the lower amount of rights woman had back in the late 1800s."

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