Maine Memory Network

Telephone Museum

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrapbook 1: 1885-1899, Katahdin Iron Works, Silver Lake Hotel

"… Hotel, which served both tourist interests and workers at the Iron Works. Even though the name of the company changed over the years as business…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"The workers used splitting forks and pick poles to line up the blocks that were lifted by the steam hoist."

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"The workers used splitting forks and pick poles to line up the blocks that were lifted by the steam hoist."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 1 of 4

"Workers from Europe, especially Poland, Lithuania, Italy, Scotland, Ireland, England, came to build the dams, canals, brick structures, and other…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House

"… organization was to support English immigrant worker integration into the Western Maine community."

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

"… a store, twelve houses on Red Row for their workers’ families, a stable and two barns. By 1902 they had 150 men working with a daily output of…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond

"… haul the ice down our ice house and then other workers would shove it up the ramp into the ramp and stack it."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 8 of 13

"Workers there would unload the full barrels and put the empty barrels (empties) back onto the truck."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Lincoln Block

"When summer came, workers would take the ice down south by ship where they could use it to keep things cold, so produce, meats, and dairy goods would…"

Thomaston Historical Society

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Wood Products of Strong

"… they provide employment for the residents, but workers came from all the surrounding towns. Lumbermen from miles around worked to provide the raw…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - John Frank Stevens

"… immediately began improving the conditions of the workers. He actually stopped what little excavation was going on at the time and focused the…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"During the busy years, the increase in workers had a visible result on the island; there were boarding houses, boardwalks, sidewalks, hotels…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"He was a very hard worker, demanding of himself and others, yet was concerned for the welfare of others, such as in adequate housing and education."

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"… filled cans waiting on trays on one side of each worker. Solder would still have to be used to seal the cans."

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

"Hundreds of workers, many of them Italian immigrants who had been working on the railroad in Machias, were drawn to the project with promises of high…"

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

"… to rely on islanders as cooks, interior home workers and nursemaids for children. F.S. Pendleton and Company Store, interior, Islesboro, ca."

Lincoln, Maine - Other Early Hospitals

"Many of the people in our town would be dead without the hospitals, which means there would be fewer jobs and workers."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"The work was demanding, with no set hours. Workers rushed to the factory whenever the whistle blew. The conditions were dismal."

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

"… haul the ice down our ice house and then other workers would shove it up the ramp into the ramp and stack it."

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

"… insurance, a canning factory, tin, steel and iron-worker, boot and shoe maker(2),carpenter, physician and surgeon, fruit grower, dealers in…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4

"There she photographed two workers in the Brining Room who have been identified as Leeman Wilcox and Richard Munson."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 3 of 4

"… Sheds, the artifacts left there, and memories of workers help in understanding the work. Natalie Havens, who used to work at McCurdy’s, made an…"