Maine Memory Network

Historic Clothing Collection - Fashions Far & Away

"This slide show highlights the collection's 19th century traditional Chinese embroidered pleated skirt, and other items ranging in use from personal…"

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 2 of 4

"The woods about the camp are almost alive with Squirels, Hares, Phesants, with any quantity of Birds and some Snaix."

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's Journal

"… be expected: economic downturns, the Gold Rush, the outbreak of the Civil War, the first electric railroad, noted floods, and descriptions of…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 4 of 4

"Pike’s photograph shows the housing for the pump, the flexible hose that extended down into the hold of the sardine carrier, and the exterior part of…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"So great was the demand for the large herring preferred by the smokehouses that Lubec began sending vessels to the Magdelen Islands in the quest for…"

Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… dedicate the hospital “built by the people for the people.” Plaques were put up in the new hospital to commemorate the donations of the citizens…"

Lincoln, Maine - World War I

"They gave their lives for the people of the United States to make sure they were safe. The war affected Lincoln, Maine, because Lincoln sent out…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Lunt House, Cumberland at Center streets, Bangor, ca. 1852

"… drew this illustration of the Lunt House at the corner of Cumberland and Center streets in Bangor as it appeared in the early 1850s when his…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Mid to Late Nineteenth Century

"Women still relied on dressmakers for the most fashionable garments and made simpler versions at home."

Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"The medical facility was renovated and a physician’s office added; a new middle school was constructed and the old one sold for a dollar to house a…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1960-1970 - Page 2 of 3

""Felix" Crimplene dress, ca. 1965Maine Historical Society A group of short dresses in the collection, but not truly "mini" dresses, are straight or…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Elizabeth Akers Allen, née Chase

"While in Europe she served as a correspondent for the Portland Transcript and the Boston Evening Gazette."

Historic Hallowell - This won't hurt a bit!

"Vaughan was a member of the Royal Society of Science in England and corresponded with many of the leading scientists of the day. Dr."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Eureka Hall, Stockholm

"It is a popular place for the local people to eat, and many people in the winter come up and end up eating there."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion

"The first paper mill in the northeast area was built along the Sowadabscook Stream in 1835 by John Crosby."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 139-194

"… that served the stage coach business, gardening for Hinkley, the temperance movement and his desire to stop selling liquor, and his continued…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1850-1870 - Page 3 of 4

"The weight of the heavily lined, and very expansive skirt, is carried by an attached cotton bodice designed to fit over the shoulders under the teal…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Soldier transport ships, Bangor, 1865

"Martin noted that residents had prepared a meal for the returning soldiers and that banners describing their battles were at the entrance to the high…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Benjamin Kimball, Bangor, ca. 1867

"… of Kimball, "When the 22 Regiment left Bangor for Ship Island he was the tallest & handsomest man in the regiment." Martin's illustration of…"

Architecture & Landscape database - John P. Thomas

"For John P. Thomas, who planned banks and palatial homes, the Great Depression of the 1930s brought difficult times that resulted in fewer…"

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

"… one of all the thousands were as it were dumb for a moment when at this moment the balloon struck an upper current and began to sail off bearing…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Elizabeth Blowers, Bangor, ca. 1864

"1864 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description John Martin (1823-1904) of Bangor drew an illustration of…"

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 3 of 4

"in _____Bangor Historical Society I am much obliged to the one who sent that Veasie for it got A fine bit of Tobacco for me."

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin gate design, Bangor, 1867

"… Bangor, 1867 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description John Martin (1823-1904) of Bangor designed a…"