Maine Memory Network

Early Maine Photography - Human Interest

"… Bowdoin College in 1823 and practiced medicine in Portland with his father Stephen Cummings. Regretfully, the Cummings family genealogy contains no…"

Early Maine Photography - Art

"… century painting of Julia Clapp Carroll of Portland appearing in an ambrotype (at left) was the work of an accomplished portraitist."

Early Maine Photography - Family Groups

"In a daguerreotype by Samuel L. Carleton of Portland, the serious countenances of a father, mother, and their son are tempered by the affectionate…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation - Page 1 of 2

"Meeting at Falmouth Neck (present-day Portland), the committee drafted a report entitled "The Separation of Maine from Massachusetts."[6]"

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Final Vote

"… one editor writing that "a vessel may go from Portland to Savannah without being under any necessity to enter and clear" burdensome state customs."

Maine's Road to Statehood - Maine in the 17th Century

"Map of Falmouth (present-day Portland) from 1630-1690Maine Historical Society The English Civil War (1642-1651) had ramifications on all American…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 1 of 3

"… have been created (updated) for an 1825 ball in Portland, in honor of Revolutionary War hero, the Marquis de Lafayette."

Historic Clothing Collection - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 2 of 2

"Margaret Payson's Delphic-style gown, Portland, ca. 1938Maine Historical Society At one time in the hierarchy of historic objects, dress was…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1970-1980 - Page 3 of 3

"… ensemble is labelled: "Martha Mclean, Portland." At present, this is the collection’s only example of the famous, classic, Channel-style jacket…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1960-1970 - Page 1 of 3

"One, labelled "FELIX, Portland," is a green double knit with a mandarin collar, long sleeves, rolled toggle neck closure, square diamanté buckled…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 2 of 4

"Grandfather Tales of Scarborough. Portland, ME: Katahdin Publishing Co., 1925. William KingScarborough Historical Society & Museum William King…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"… she and her husband, Edward Vaill, a prominent Portland businessman, had envisioned and planned. After her death in 1957 at the age of 79, her…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 4 of 4

"… residency at the Osteopathic Hospital of Maine in Portland. He arrived in Scarborough in 1944 and opened his first office in the Marshview…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"By the 1790s, Portland had rebuilt its port and surpassed Dunstan as a trading center. 'Delia Chapin' construction, Dunstan Landing…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"Flake Yard, Portland, 1854Maine Historical Society The fishing industry Before the advent of refrigeration on vessels, Maine's fishing villages…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"She took a job on the Portland Transcript in 1855, and the next year published her first book of poetry, Forest Buds from the Woods of Maine, under…"

Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"… went to work in shipyards in Bath and South Portland and to other states. With a population of approximately 500, Surry contributed forty people…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Resources, Links, and Bibliography for Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"“Malaga Island: A Century of Shame,” a Portland Press Herald Article by Colin Woodard about the 2012-2013, Maine State Museum exhibit “Malaga Island…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Prince Memorial Library

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Jacob Abbott

"… he was studying at Andover, Jacob also taught at Portland Academy where one of his students was Henry Longfellow."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"… allowed the export of farm products south to Portland, Boston and Brighton, MA, and as far away as England."

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

"Portland, The Press Herald, “Wyman Ramsdell, Lubec, Added To Heroes Of Drowning Tragedy,” Tuesday June 23, 1936."