Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ice Storm Poem

"… glaze from behind dark windows; playing cards by candlelight with battery-run radios humming to fill silence."

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell House

"Worster House card, Hallowell, ca. 1930Maine Historical Society Since 1832, this hotel served the public."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting

"If people wanted ice, they would put a card in the window showing how much ice they wanted. Ice was either a ten cents block or a twenty cents block."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"… today!” “If people wanted ice they would put this card in the window showing how much ice they wanted; a ten cent block or a twenty cent block."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond ~ A Family Affair

"… today! If people wanted ice they would put this card in the window showing how much ice they wanted; a ten cent block or a twenty cent block."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"1875Patten Free Library Do you know what a merchant is? A merchant is a buyer or seller for goods for profit, like one who carries on a trade."

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin Sr. home, Ellsworth, 1823

"… details in the drawing, including Card's Cove, Cards Brook, Squaw Point, Cards Mill, Austin's Cove, the Union River, and his father's tailor shop."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro to pages 91-132

"DeGarmo Brookes, comments on card playing, provides a program of an 1874 dance evening, Oliver Lunt's Dancing Academy, dances Martin sponsored, and…"

Lincoln, Maine - Nathaniel Bodwell

"Carding mills have to brush or card the wool before it can be spun into yarn for knitting or weaving into cloth."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 0-73

"Black Joseph Card Calvin Bakeman Eben Merrill Rebecca Raynes Charles Merrill Elm House, Bangor Thomas Finson Skinner Farm, Brewer Henry K."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - West New Portland Village

"W.W. Jordan ran a carding and novelty mill making good use of available water power. A short distance from the girst mill was a shoe shop owned by…"

Penobscot Marine Museum

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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Patten Free Library

"Other people pay $40 for a library card each year. This information about the Patten Free Library in Bath highlights the past and present…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Our Resources

"… Records Genealogy Records Photographs Post Cards Reference Books Permanent and changing exhibits Islesboro Central School PO Box 118 159 Alumni…"

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Memorial Library

"… cost money to rent, you had to have a library card. In the 1920s-1980s there were multiple librarians; some were Mary Buzzell, Sadie Adams, Evelyn…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"… beaches, family bon fire parties, and indoor card and board games, especially Bridge, Canasta and jig saw puzzles. St."

Lincoln, Maine - Post Office

"… way to Bangor or Howland to get my letters and cards from them. That is one reason why I think it is very important that we have the postal office."

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones

"… the two lines the operator put in a type of time card, and the operators would get paid from two to ten dollars per week."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"… built in 1803, salt factories, shoe factories, carding mills, blacksmith shops, and ice houses. John Elliott built a mill on Lemon Stream at the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"Stereoptic Card of The Titcomb-Linscott House, Farmington, ca. 1890 Known for years as the Dr. Linscott House, this was the home of John & Lydia…"

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"Soon after this, a fulling and carding mill was constructed to process wool. Waterpower generated from the middle channel of the sluiceway supported…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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