Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - Ballard Hill School, Lincoln, ca. 1930

"Ballard Hill School, Lincoln, ca. 1930 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description In the summer of 1918, the citizens of…"

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Center Baptist Church, Lincoln, ca. 1900

"Lincoln Center Baptist Church, Lincoln, ca. 1900 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description The first clergyman associated with…"

Lincoln, Maine - Primary school on School Street, Lincoln, ca. 1905

"Primary school on School Street, Lincoln, ca. 1905 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description This school was built in the…"

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Center school, ca. 1950

"Lincoln Center school, ca. 1950 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description The Lincoln Center school was built in 1926 to…"

Lincoln, Maine - South Lincoln schoolhouse, Lincoln, ca. 1930

"South Lincoln schoolhouse, Lincoln, ca. 1930 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description The first school house in South Lincoln…"

Lincoln, Maine - View of Mattanawcook Lake from Clark Street, Lincoln, ca. 1890

"View of Mattanawcook Lake from Clark Street, Lincoln, ca. 1890 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description This is a beautiful…"

Lincoln, Maine - High Street Bridge, Lincoln, ca. 1903

"High Street Bridge, Lincoln, ca. 1903 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description This is the High Street Bridge built in the…"

Lincoln, Maine - View of Lincoln from Ballard Hill, ca. 1913

"View of Lincoln from Ballard Hill, ca. 1913 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description A view of the town of Lincoln taken from…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Sports

"… role in the Press Herald and Evening Express papers. The Portland Press Herald Glass Plate Collection contains many examples of sports photography…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Icons & Influencers

"The paper began featuring photographs under owner Colonel Fred Dow (son of infamous Temperance advocate, Neal Dow), but starting with Guy Gannett’s…"

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

"… the honor of being editor-in-chief of the school paper, Breccia, he proceeded to romp away with saluterian honors at graduation."

Guilford, Maine - PEOPLE

"Robert Low Jr. sent a paper to the government to see if they could get a warrant to have Guilford be on a map and have it be a legal town."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"In 1840 another Hampden mill, the Norton Paper Mill, began operation using machinery to make paper on a continuous roll."

Maine's Road to Statehood - The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation - Page 2 of 2

"Constitution, local papers dedicated its commentary to national matters and suspended talk of Maine separation.[9] Despite all of this, the movement…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 1 of 2

"… and often promoted it on the front page of the paper. There are hundreds of examples reflected in the glass plate collection that Gannett’s…"

Early Maine Photography - MHS Early Maine Photography Collections

"Unlike with traditional paper-based materials, many 19th and early 20th century repositories often overlooked the research value of photographs, and…"

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"They hauled pulp and paper, petroleum, mill products, and chemicals. In 1962 the railroad running through Guilford was torn up."

Maine's Road to Statehood - After the War: The First Victory for Separationists

"Of its many arguments, the paper maintained a district with a population of nearly 270,000 deserved an independent government."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"Within its boundaries were numerous gristmills, paper mills, three silver mines, and a foundry. Farmland dominated the rural area to the village’s…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"In 1840 another Hampden mill, the Norton Paper Mill, began operation using machinery to make paper on a continuous roll."

Early Maine Photography - The Vickery-Shettleworth Collection

"… year at Colby College, Shettleworth wrote a paper entitled "The Daguerreotypists of Portland, Maine." Many of Earle G."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1910-1920 - Page 1 of 2

"… of downeast Cherryfield, to southern Maine paper and silk manufacturing Westbrook, embraced this fashion."

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

"… is comprised of a gored, very flared stiff paper nylon skirt of black and white checks, overprinted with a black flock floral design."

Penobscot Marine Museum

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