Maine Memory Network

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

"… Williams Brothers operated a large grocery store featuring fancy goods, (ie: caviar, goose liver, specially packed canned foods from SS Pierce Co…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1890-1900 - Page 1 of 3

"… Libby's in Portland, and in small town dry-goods stores. Reasonably priced plain skirts, jackets, and blouses that became the norm for the working…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"… in the late 19th century, was Annette's grocery store and another grocery store owned by Michael Gannet."

Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"After the short-lived establishment of Gershom Palmer, William P. Hill (formerly an employee of Palmer) opened a dry goods business at 94 Front…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Ledyard Block

"… had the Ledyard Block built, he had a dry goods store on the same lot. William Ledyard was married to Miss Harriet Ledyard."

Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Woodbury

"If I was the first professional sports player, I would donate lots of my money to the town so that they could be a better town."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Man Rats Out Brady Gang - Page 1 of 2

"He purchased his own sporting goods store called Dakins Sporting Goods Co. in Bangor, which became very successful."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"This store, located at 782 Washington Street (the southwest corner of the intersection), did very well, surviving for more than 20 years despite…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Lincoln Block

"They stored the ice in big barns with hay and sawdust. The hay and sawdust preserved the ice for long periods of time."

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"As it headed to more stores, people were helping to save the goods but some of it was taken away by the flames."

Lincoln, Maine - Railroads

"The rail was used by sports teams to go to out of town games, and the military used it to transport soldiers to and from World War II."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Church Block

"He also ran a tinsmith shop, a store that sold metal goods, and an iron foundry that later became Bath Iron Works."

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

"This store was located on the end of Lake Street and about in the middle of Main Street. Now, the store has been donated to the town and is currently…"

Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"… Kiwanis Club was organized; Tripp’s Sporting Goods store came to Town as did Guilford Dairy, Goulette’s IGA and Davis Brother’s Furniture."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1900-1910 - Page 2 of 3

"… includes a group of early 1900s gowns in very good condition, among them Sarah E. Thomas’ brown printed silk, shown at the left."

Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 1 of 4

"… of threads to supply the county’s new narrow goods industry, now manufacturing decorative braids, cords, ribbons, passementerie, lace, soutache…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1830-1850 - Page 1 of 3

"… with very full gigot sleeves presents a good example of day fashions straddling the 1830 to 1835 period."

Historic Clothing Collection - Mid Twentieth Century

"There is, however, a good selection illustrating, to one degree or another, the pervasive influence of French designer Dior's 1947 revolutionary "New…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1870-1890 - Page 3 of 4

"… Peterson’s Magazine reported: “Velvet-figured goods will also be extensively worn next season. In solid colors the ground will be a dead, rep-like…"

Historic Clothing Collection - Mid to Late Nineteenth Century

"… increased distribution of raw materials, finished goods—and fashion news—to remote or newly settled areas."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"All the rescued goods were stored in the nearby Methodist Church, while the store was rebuilt. Today a portion of that building makes up part of…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Project Resources

"and Snow, Ralph Linwood, 1988, “Maine Odyssey: Good Times and Hard Times in Bath, 1936-1986.” Owen, Henry Wilson, 1936, “The Edward Clarence Plummer…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House

"… of the Customs Collector was to collect taxes on goods imported from other countries. Also, the building contained a room for federal judges, an…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahoc County Courthouse

"… told his wife not to worry about him and to take good care of herself and Mabel, his daughter. 1910 Sagadahoc County JudgesPatten Free Library…"