Maine Memory Network

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Buttons

"“Rags! Rags!” a voice yells. You hand out your rag bag, and the man collects the contents. The Rag Man, as many called him, would come every month to…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin store, Center Street, Bangor, 1862

"… man who came along July 20 1862 dressed in dirty ragged clothes sitting on the high ways by the fences and sketching churches and various…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Thieves in Bangor, ca. 1865

"6 is Cornelius Driskill, "a dirty ragged full blooded Irish scoundral;" No. 7 is Thomas' dog, No 12 is Nellie Chapman, and No."

Historic Clothing Collection - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 1 of 2

"Well used, repaired, passed on or repurposed, historically they were often reduced to rags or discarded."

Historic Hallowell - Whaling

"… & Annie Wilson Men carrying a whale fin, Ragged Island, 1927Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Whaling was not a big industry in…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"Many Hampden women worked in the mill’s rag room. In 1840 another Hampden mill, the Norton Paper Mill, began operation using machinery to make paper…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"Many Hampden women worked in the mill’s rag room. In 1840 another Hampden mill, the Norton Paper Mill, began operation using machinery to make paper…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and the Civil War

"… blackened countenances from pitch pine smoke, rags, and disease, the men look sickening. The air reeks with nastiness.” Another prisoner said…"

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

"… boards with chunks of chalk and erased with cloth rags. Soon, the slate board was invented and it was then that teachers switched to cylinders of…"

Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company

"Though sometimes out of key and a bit ragged, the performances were received with enthusiasm and the so-called Presumptuous Opera Company continued."