Maine Memory Network

John Martin: Expert Observer - Gravenstein apple, Bangor, 1866

"… threw the strength to the sap in the top & made it bear prematurely." View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

John Martin: Expert Observer - "A Little Daisy," Katahdin Iron Works, 1890

"… to my room when I was gone & hung it up over my sink in my room." View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

John Martin: Expert Observer - About This Project

"… with the volumes of writing and unspecified other items. After Ella Stevens' death in 1945, the property that John Martin had so lovingly tended…"

Abbot Historical Society

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Westport Island History Committee

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison Industries

"… depot on Knox Street for shipment to various sales outlets. Railroad Depot, Thomaston, Maine c 1871Thomaston Historical Society Other…"

Oakfield Historical Society

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Guilford, Maine - Early Manufacturing - Page 3 of 3

"Pride Sales Agency was established in 1930 in Tampa, Florida by Fletcher Pride to manufacture wooden cigar tips for the Hav-a-Tampa Jewel Cigar."

Lithgow Public Library

"… with a $9,000 gift from Andrew Carnegie and the sale of subscriptions to area citizens, provided the funds to construct the building."

Bridgton Historical Society

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

"… whose purpose was to ban the consumption and sale of alcoholic beverages, especially hard liquor."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… markings, demonstrating that animal raising for sale and consumption was an important early industry to satisfy basic human needs."

Rumford Area Historical Society

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Village Schools

"They held auctions, catered, had food sales, sold lunches at the mills, had booths at the county fair, and sold chances on quilts and other donated…"

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"This coupled with the sale of the company’s assets enabled stockholders to recover 36 cents on each dollar invested."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"… a variety of products for both farm use and sale to markets beyond Cumberland and North Yarmouth."

Colby College Special Collections

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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