Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes

"The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes Indian encampment, Bar Harbor, 1881Abbe Museum All the cooking at the Indian encampment is done…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - "Man on the Street"

""Man on the Street" Street scene, Monument Square, Portland, ca. 1924Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media The Portland Evening Express…"

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

"E.M. Fuller came to the scene when he heard the bang of the wood. He was being rushed home by horse and carriage but sadly died before they reached…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 9 of 13

"Harvesting Potatoes A POTATO HARVESTING SCENE A Potato Harvesting Scene, Presque Isle, 1945Presque Isle Historical Society This painting by…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 16 of 17

"1865Maine Historical Society April 9th marked Confederate Robert E. Lee’s surrender. Like, April 3rd, Biddeford and Saco rejoiced in the streets as…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 3 of 3

"… early outdoor photographs, as reflected in street scenes in South Paris and Athens. A South Paris tintype of about 1860 shows eleven members of the…"

Historic Hallowell - Eastern Illustrating Company

"… their lenses on locally known landmarks, street scenes, country stores and businesses, events and people."

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3

"Everything in this scene was destroyed twenty years later in the Great Fire of 1866. Bank of Cumberland Building, Portland, ca."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 1 of 3

"Additionally there was a huge and thriving arts scene in the area, in no small part due to the many talented French-Canadians who had moved here."

Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"State Street ruins, Bangor, 1911Bangor Public Library We little realized going through the heart of town the horrible change we would find."

Lithgow Public Library

"… the 15th and 16th centuries, as well as several scenes from Augusta history. The elegant Reading Room, with its frescoes, stained glass and gold…"

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3

"… and an ambrotype of Portland streets scenes of the 1840s and 50s rank among the earliest photographs of the city."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Fires in Rumford

"… a 5-year-old child at the time of the fire, the scene was described as one of chaos, fear, horror, and destitution."

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 1 of 2

"… 1955Guilford Historical Society This is a Winter scene of Bank Square and the Elm Street business district in the 1950s."

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"… in evening gowns and their escorts provided a scene of beauty to the audience seated in the balcony."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"… 125 actors and crew on the island and they shot scenes off Ocean Drive, on Scatterlee Beach, and on the rocks and in the water at various locations…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"1910Jesup Memorial Library The hotel scene did start to fade. Rich summer visitors wanted more than just rooms. They wanted their own cottages."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"1862Maine Historical Society Setting the Scene On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina’s harbor."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"… 12 miles in a drenching rain, we arrived at the scene of action at about 3 p.m. The 3rd and 4th Maine did not go right up in front but went around…"

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"… reached Bangor, physicians were dispatched to the scene. The next day, spectators and photographers flocked to the site of the wreck: 10,000 people…"

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"It was a wild scene that would be oft repeated throughout the years. The Guilford Water Supply Company was developed when Charles Taylor, a respected…"

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