Maine Memory Network

Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair

"The picture to the left shows a race in progress during the third year of the Fair. Postcard of the trotting park in Blue Hill ca."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection

"While the practice of using pictures in newspapers was ubiquitous, Gannett utilized photography as news much more than his contemporaries."

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Memorial Library, 1924

"Ingersoll. The front room of the library (pictured) shows off the beautiful original furniture including tables, chairs, check-out desk, and podium."

Presque Isle: The Star City - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959

"… Isle, 1959Presque Isle Historical Society Pictured here on November 30, the tree waits for transfer to the Bangor & Aroostook flatcar."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 11 of 13

"… Aroostook Agricultural Museum The two trucks pictured here are restorations of 1940s potato barrel trucks."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 5 of 13

"… picker would first fill a basket such as the one pictured here. The potatoes would be picked from a section of the field allotted to the picker."

Architecture & Landscape database - Gridley Barrows

"… record of Lewiston architecture, using his pictures in lectures and publications to promote awareness of the city’s heritage."

Lincoln, Maine - Weatherbee Hardware Store window display, Lincoln, ca. 1943

"… Society Description This display shows pictures of World War II soldiers, medals and other memorabilia pertaining to World War II…"

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

"This picture postcard was taken between 1913 and 1922, before electricity came to Lincoln and the Library and Worsted Mill was built."

Bar Harbor Historical Society

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Early Maine Photography - Human Interest

"… elbows on a table displaying a liquor bottle (pictured at right). Daguerreotype of Horatio Woodman in fur, ca."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 7 of 13

"This picture on the right was taken on the Laurence Park farm in 1950. It shows two men loading barrels and one man setting the barrels in place on…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor During the 1940s

"Photographs from this era paint a picture of a community teeming with activity and buildings housing a variety of businesses and services on all…"

Early Maine Photography - Studio Portraits

"… to design furniture, etc., etc. so as to give his pictures all the richness and romance of the Italian school." The Portland Transcript reported on…"

Early Maine Photography - Groups - Page 1 of 2

"The inscription on the reverse that “This picture is to be given to the last survivor of the Cabin” instilled in its owner a sense of its historical…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 1 of 13

"Pictured on the left are several men using a hand digger to dig potatoes from the rows. Others picked the potatoes from the ground and put them in…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"The Central School burned December 24, 1906, and in 1907 a new school was built and named Abbott School for Elizabeth Abbott who had originally…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Jonathan Fisher: Unlocking the Person Beyond the Parson

"… social philosophy, and especially provide a good picture of life in Blue Hill in the post revolutionary period."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"Click on the picture then read the text telling of the portion of this structure which still exists as of 2011."

Otisfield Historical Society

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 8 of 13

"This picture shows how two persons can load barrels with a battery powered hoist, one man to operate the hoist and another to place the barrels."

Rumford Area Historical Society

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Western Maine Foothills Region - A Man's Life in a Suitcase

"… His baby shoes, birth certificate, his mother's picture, and his high school athletic letter were found in the suitcase, as were his prayer book…"

Lincoln, Maine - Ferries

"… a few paragraphs" An Album of Lincoln Ferry Pictures Early ferries were flat and made of logs; the logs were placed side by side like a flat…"