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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 2 of 4

"… had established their separate place of worship and now it was time to make a clean break in town administration, too."

Early Maine Photography - Studio Portraits

"In an ambrotype by George W. Campbell of South Berwick, a young woman was photographed against a freely painted backdrop resembling the decorative…"

Early Maine Photography - Art

"The unframed portrait shows a man in formal clothing writing with a quill pen. The painting style is reminiscent of the Readfield artist Jonathan…"

Early Maine Photography - Family Groups

"This three generation portrait places a grandmother at the center flanked by a mother and father. Two boys stand behind them and a third sits in…"

Early Maine Photography - Early Maine Photography at Maine Historical Society

"As a result, MHS’ early photographic collections largely consist of three mediums: the daguerreotype, ambrotype and tintype (ferrotype)."

Early Maine Photography - The Vickery-Shettleworth Collection

"As James B. Vickery III wrote to Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. in 1967: What makes me get rather ecstatic over these early forms of photography is…"

Lincoln, Maine - Ariel G. Edwards, WW II soldier, Lincoln, 1943

"Ariel G. Edwards, WW II soldier, Lincoln, 1943 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description Ariel G."

Lincoln, Maine - Horse and Wagon, Lincoln, ca. 1900

"Horse and Wagon, Lincoln, ca. 1900 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description Two men with a horse and wagon in Lincoln."

Lincoln, Maine - Main Street, Lincoln, ca. 1890

"Main Street, Lincoln, ca. 1890 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description Horse and buggy complete with rider shaded by an…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"Between the two early town centers, churchgoers had a stream to ford and brush and woods to beat back! In January 1794, a group of settlers…"

Early Maine Photography - War

"… in his teens and witnessed many of the events of the American Revolution, including Valley Forge, the Battle of Monmouth, and Cornwallis’s…"

Early Maine Photography - Occupational Photography

"A tintype of George Allen Soule of Yarmouth shows a young man with his coat and tie almost entirely covered by a smock, which the photographer has…"

Early Maine Photography - Human Interest

"Two of the tintypes show the same pair of ladies playing chess. In a third tintype, as a defiant gesture toward Maine’s prohibition laws, two young…"

Early Maine Photography - Occupational

"In contrast is the elegant appearance of Portland artists John Greenleaf Cloudman and Charles Frederick Kimball."

Early Maine Photography - Post-Mortem & Mourning

"… of Francis and Anne Gardiner Richards, members of two of Gardiner’s most prominent families. Tragedy struck these families on September 4, 1855…"

Early Maine Photography - Portland Photographers

"… young Alice Jane Means and the four photographs of the children of Stephen and Mariana Longfellow, nieces and nephews of the poet Henry Wadsworth…"

Early Maine Photography - MHS Early Maine Photography Collections

"Please visit the final section of the site to explore the entire early Maine photography collection at Maine Historical Society."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Grant Memorial United Methodist Church

"For many years the church was a faithful place to worship, but on Friday, January 19, 1996, a raging fire destroyed the church."

Presque Isle: The Star City - State Street Baptist Church

"This church has become a place for people to worship because it is said to be founded on “God’s Word”. Sources: Leeland, Robert J."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"The Dark Harbor summer residents enjoyed the pleasures of the Tarratine Club, offering golf in the 1890s, yachting in the 1920s and tennis in the…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - A Murder In Strong

"worship service and an afternoon session from 1:00 until 2:30 or 3:00. For her lunch Lura carried two apples and a piece of gingerbread."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - North Church

"They purchased the lot on the northeast corner of High Street and Court Street and built the North Church in 1973."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"These worshipers were Baptists, who built the first house of worship on the island, the Baptist Meeting House and Town Hall (1804)."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"New residents needed a house of worship to call their own. According to the 1902 register of H.E. Mitchell, Captain Parker's residence housed the…"