Maine Memory Network

John Martin: Expert Observer - First balloon ascension, Bangor, 1857

"… a failure or an impossibility..." In a "Scrap & Sketch Book" he began in 1864 in which he recalled past events and wrote about current ones…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Introduction

"… County Maine with illustrations and biographical sketches 1882) The Penobscot River forms the east border of the town for just over six miles."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - JP Cilley Ledger From Post

"Jonathan P. Cilley Personal Sketch from P. Henry Tillson Post Journal, Thomaston, Maine 1895Thomaston Historical Society"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 6 of 6

"… War, in the 1783 Treaty of Paris, negotiators had sketched an imaginary line through this perpetually contested and poorly understood region."

Blue Hill, Maine - Project Sources

"Candage, R.G.F. Historical Sketches of Blue Hill, Maine, Volume I, 1905.—(LI) Candage, R.G.F. Historical Sketches of Blue Hill, Maine, Volume II…"

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

"Back in his studio after this assignment, Homer worked on a series of war-related paintings based on his sketches."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"… wrote a short book titled, A Brief Historical Sketch of the Life and Sufferings of Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid."

John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 1 of 2

"… and Maine State Museum He refers to notes and sketches that helped inform his surviving volumes."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… County Maine with illustrations and biographical sketches 1882) During the great years of lumbering in Maine, most men in Hampden worked in mills…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Resources and Links

"… Maine: with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers. Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1880. Condon, Richard H."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - About the Team

"… X Though our general path for this project was sketched in our application to the Maine Historical Society in 2008, our workplan was refined and…"

Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens

"… of plans, blueprints, renderings, drawings, sketch books, photograph albums, scrapbooks, and specifications."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"… spent than those recalled while writing out this sketch. We have coasted in good company and under good pilotage along the rocky shore, landing for…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… Mount Desert Island’s landscapes through pencil sketches and paintings that were finished, shared and published back in their home cities."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"… County Maine with illustrations and biographical sketches 1882) During the great years of lumbering in Maine, most men in Hampden worked in mills…"

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 1 of 4

"I took A sketch of the country- and I will give you an idea of the place where we are encamped & picketed."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and the Civil War

"Andersonville Prison Above is a sketch of Andersonville Prison as it appeared on August 1, 1864 when it contained 35,000 prisoners of war."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"… Maine: with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers. Philadelphia, Pa.: Everts & Peck, 1880."

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

"Winslow Homer made a sketch of the violin and gave it to Mrs. Vaill who was offered a substantial sum for it."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Church on the Hill

"… Coll.#028 Loraine Welch Smith, The Dixfield Congregational Church, ca.1950 Historical Sketch, Reginald W. Wing., The Church on the Hill, 2006"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"Croix, based on a sketch by British surveyor Joseph Bouchette of Montreal, includes an iron ring on a tree, placed by surveyors to identify the…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"Thomas Lord, at first a ship’s carpenter, made sketches of classical buildings while on shore leave in the Mediterranean."

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

"Jernegan, Prescott Ford, A Sketch of the Discovery of a Commercially Profitable Process for the Extraction of Gold and Silver from Sea Water…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"“Historical Sketch of the Loring Family,” In: Corliss, Augustus W. (ed.) Old Times of North Yarmouth, Maine, Vol. 6, no. 3 (July 1, 1882), 878."